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GHRC DAAC publishes GPM-GV OLYMPEX AMPR dataset

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Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC has just published the GPM-GV OLYMPEX AMPR dataset at http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/AMPR/DATA101.

The GPM Ground Validation Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) OLYMPEX dataset was collected by the AMPR instrument flown on the high altitude ER-2 research aircraft from November 9 - December 15, 2015, during the OLYMPEX - Olympic Mountain Experiment field campaign conducted at Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. AMPR data at the GHRC DAAC include netCDF format data files of brightness temperature and PNG browse files of Quality Control Flags and Brightness Temperatures.

GPM-GV OLYMPEX NPOL data published

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New NASA OLYMPEX ground validation campaign data for GPM is now available at Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC. http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/NPOL/DATA301

The GPM Ground Validation NASA S-Band Dual Polarimetric (NPOL) Doppler Radar OLYMPEX V2 dataset consists of rain rate, reflectivity, Doppler velocity, and other radar measurements obtained from the NPOL radar during the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) campaign.

GPM-GV IPHEX SCaMPR dataset now available

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Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC has published the #SCaMPR #IPHEx dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IPHEX/SCAMPR/DATA301

The GPM Ground Validation Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval (SCaMPR) IPHEx dataset contains rainfall rate measurements derived using the SCaMPR algorithm to combine #GOES infrared (IR) data and derived parameters as inputs.

Micro article and NASA Earthdata feature Dr. Rachel Albrecht's lightning research

LIS VHRC revealing Earth's new lightning hotspot - Lake Maracaibo, VenezuelaThe GHRC DAAC has published a micro article describing "Highlights from Albrecht et. al's 'Where Are the Lightning Hotspots on Earth?’ publication."  This publication in the November 2016 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) described Dr. Rachel Albrecht’s research with the GHRC’s 16-year data record from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS). Albrecht’s resulting data product, the LIS 0.1 Degree Very High Resolution Gridded Lightning Climatology Data Collection, is also available from the GHRC.

Update (10/2/17): Dr. Rachel Albrecht has recently been featured in NASA Earthdata's Data User Profile portion of their website.

Update (10/26/17): Results from Dr. Rachel Albrecht's research were used as a question on the television game show Jeopardy! that aired on Oct. 25th (see pic courtesy of Chris Shultz). The data providing the answer to this question is available at GHRC http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS/DATA306. See the GHRC Twitter page retweet.

Rachel AlbrechtIn 2016 NASA reported that this Venezuelan lake was the world's lightning capital with 603 bolts per sq. mile per year

GHRC DAAC hosts 4th Annual UWG meeting

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Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) held its User Working Group meeting September 26-27 in Huntsville, AL. The DAAC reported on 2016 accomplishments and provided responses to last year's recommendations from the UWG. The GHRC DAAC UWG is led by outgoing chair John Zawislak (Florida International University). Incoming chair will be Michael Peterson (University of Maryland).

2017 Agenda and Presentations

2017 GHRC Annual Report

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