The NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC published the GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) ICE-POP dataset. This dataset includes precipitation measurements and video images collected by the Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) during the International Collaborative Experiments for Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (ICE-POP) field campaign in South Korea. The two major objectives of ICE-POP were to study severe winter weather events in regions of complex terrain and improve the short-term forecasting of such events. These data contributed to the Global Precipitation Measurement mission Ground Validation (GPM GV) campaign efforts to improve satellite estimates of orographic winter precipitation. Data values obtained using PIP measurements include particle size distributions, fall velocity distributions, precipitation density estimates, and precipitation rates. The dataset files are available from June 18, 2017 through December 30, 2018 as generic data files (.dat) in ASCII-CSV format with browse imagery and video available in PNG and AVI format. It should be noted that this dataset includes additional data collected before and after the main ICE-POP field campaign study period.
GHRC News
Geoffrey Stano (GHRC DAAC Scientist) from the NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC attended the 100th American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting in Boston, MA where three talks about GHRC were presented. These talks were on “Operating a Cloud-Native Distributed Active Archive Center,” “Near Real-Time Distribution of LANCE ISS LIS Lightning Data Available at the GHRC DAAC,” and “Cloud-Native Data Processing and Visualizations Techniques for Earth Science Data.” Geoffrey Stano also attended the AMS Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (STAC) meeting as he completed his tenure as chair of the AMS Atmospheric Electricity STAC Committee.
The NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC published the GPM Ground Validation Satellite Overpasses IFloodS dataset. This dataset contains plots of satellite overpass paths centered over eastern Iowa during the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) field campaign. The campaign aimed to collect detailed measurements of precipitation at the Earth’s surface while simultaneously collecting data from satellites passing overhead. This dataset consists of paths for Earth observation satellites operating during the campaign: NASA’s AQUA, TERRA, and CloudSat satellites; NOAA’s NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18, and Suomi NPP satellites; Europe’s MetOp-A and MetOp-B satellites, and DMSP’s F-15, F-16, F-17, and F-18 satellites. The satellite overpasses are provided as PNG plot images and as KML files with which the paths can be imported and viewed in Google Earth.
Will Ellett (IT/Ops Manager) & Geoffrey Stano (GHRC DAAC Scientist) from The NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA. where we presented a poster and a talk. Will Ellett conducted an oral presentation on “Operating a Cloud-Native Distributed Active Archive Center”. Geoffrey Stano presented a poster on “Near Real-Time/Low Latency Data for Earth Science and Space Weather Applications”. Other posters presented included “A New, Cloud Native Visualization Tool for Earth Science Data: Field Campaign Explorer,” and “Cloud-Native Data Processing and Visualizations Techniques for Earth Science Data.” Geoffrey Stano also presented an eLightning poster on “A Historical Perspective on NASA Earth Science Data Management That Supports Interoperability.” DAAC Manager Manil Maskey presented FCX at the NASA hyperwall.
The posters can be viewed on our website at https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/posters.
Dave Jones, a GHRC DAAC User Working Group member, is spotlighted on the NASA Earthdata website, "Who Uses NASA Earth Science Data?" Dave enables NASA Earth Science data to be used collaboratively in real time across platforms by emergency responders and managers. Dave Jones is the Founder, President, and CEO of StormCenter Communications, Inc. in Halethorpe, MD.
