GHRC DAAC is excited to host our upcoming annual User Working Group (UWG) this week on September 26-27!
Here's a link to the 2017 UWG agenda
2016 GHRC DAAC User Working Group
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Image credit: Houze, Jr., R. A. , L. A. McMurdie, & W. A. Petersen, 2017: The Olympic Mountains Experiment for GPM (OLYMPEX), AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, 25 January 2017
The OLYMPEx Field Campaign was a valuable part of the GPM-Ground Validation effort that took place in the Olympic Mountains of Washington during Nov 2015-Jan 2016. OLYMPEX scientists performed detailed investigations of terrain amplification of Pacific storm rain events and atmospheric river events. GHRC has started publishing OLYMPEX datasets, including several ground precipitation instruments (Pluvio, Autonomous Parsivel Units, Rain Gauges, 2DVD), ground radars (MRR, D3R), and airborne instruments that flew on the Global Hawk (HIWRAP, APR-3) and the Citation II (NCAR Particle Probes and Cloud Microphysics Datasets) aircraft flown during the campaign to coincide with GPM overflights.
More datasets will be published in the coming months. To access available data, visit HyDRO and search with the word "OLYMPEX"
List of OLYMPEX datasets
GPM Ground Validation Pluvio Precipitation Gauges OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/PLUVIO/DATA301
GPM Ground Validation Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/APU/DATA301
GPM Ground Validation High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/HIWRAP/DATA101
GPM Ground Validation Met one Rain Gauge Pairs OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/GAUGES/DATA201
GPM Ground Validation Airborne Precipitation Radar 3rd Generation (APR-3) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/APR3/DATA101
GPM Ground Validation Micro Rain Radar (MRR) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/MRR/DATA201
GPM Ground Validation Dual-frequency Dual-polarized Doppler Radar (D3R) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/D3R/DATA101
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Shannon Flynn, a software developer for both the GHRC DAAC and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS), met with Cumulus project developers Development Seed in Washington DC, August 8-11. Flynn reviewed DevSeed’s plans and prototypes for SIPS operations within Cumulus, and worked with the team on their implementation of AMSR processing software.
The GHRC DAAC staff published a new data recipe titled "Infrared Global Geostationary Composite Quick View". This data recipe provides instructions on how to use a Python script to convert Infrared Global Geostationary Composite McIDAS data available at the GHRC DAAC into PNG format and display the infrared composite as an image outside of McIDAS software.
The initial “beta” datasets from the Lightning Imaging Sensor on the International Space Station (ISS LIS) are now in soft release at the GHRC DAAC, available online but not yet cataloged and published. These data include standard and near-real-time products containing lightning observations and background imagery. The GHRC is currently generating products from the beginning of the mission (March 1) forward. The datasets will be published when the back-processing is complete.
