GHRC updated the documentation for the GRIP Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) dataset with information about the new files containing rain rates and wind speed from Hurricane Earl (September 1-2, 2010). Data with these geophysical parameters are now distributed along with the original brightness temperature files. The HIRAD flew aboard the WB-57 aircraft from Houston, Texas during the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment.
GHRC has updated the GRIP Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) dataset with new files containing rain rates and wind speed from Hurricane Earl (September 1-2, 2010) as an addition to the original brightness temperature files. The HIRAD flew aboard the WB-57 aircraft from Houston, Texas during the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment.
GHRC has released the GPM Ground Validation Environment Canada (EC) Micro Rain Radar (MRR) GCPEx dataset. Environment Canada (EC) collected data from the Micro Rain Radar (MRR) during the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) in Ontario, Canada during the winter season 2012. Operating at 24 GHz the MRR, a vertically pointing Doppler radar, retrieved quantitative rain rates, drop size distributions, radar reflectivity, fall velocities on vertical profiles up to several kilometers above the unit.
Dr. Rahul Ramachandran has been elected to serve as the chair of the IEEE Geosciences & Remote Sensing Society's (GRSS) Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee (DAD TC) for a two-year term. This committee provides recommendations and responses to issues related to the archiving and distribution of remotely sensed geospatial and geotemporal data. More information is available at the committee’s web site [http://www.grss-ieee.org/community/technical-committees/data-archival-distribution/]. Hampapuram Ramapriyan of NASA ESDIS is the outgoing DAD TC Chair. Dr. Ramachandran is a senior research scientist with the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC) and the Global Hydrology Resource Center, a NASA data center jointly operated by Marshall Space Flight Center and ITSC.
GHRC has completed documentation for the four GPM Ground Validation NOAA S-Band Profiler datasets and two GPM Ground Validation NOAA UHF 449 Profiler datasets from the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), a GPM Ground Validation field campaign.
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