GHRC DAAC staff published a micro article summarizing GHRC User Working Group member Dr. Michael Peterson’s 2016 publication “The Properties of Optical Lightning Flashes and the Clouds They Illuminate” in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. This publication highlights GHRC’s data from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite.
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This photograph, taken during a recent extra-vehicular activity at the International Space Station, shows the STP-H5 (Space Test Program-Houston 5) payload package in the top left, just in front of a solar panel. The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) is located at the bottom of STP-H5, pointing toward Earth. Near-real-time and standard lightning products from ISS LIS will be processed, archived and distributed at the GHRC DAAC. Photo by NASA.
The Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) received multiple datasets from the Olympic Mountain Experiment (OLYMPEX), the most recent Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Ground Validation field campaign. These datasets were delivered in advance of the OLYMPEX science team meeting taking place in Seattle March 21-23. These data are the final, quality controlled datasets to be released to the public. GHRC operations staff posted the new data to the OLYMPEX data portal for access by the science team, and to the GHRC archive. Over the coming months, GHRC science staff will work with the OLYMPEX team to define metadata and generate user documentation to ready the data for publication to the GHRC’s local catalog and NASA’s Common Metadata Repository (CMR).
Worldview now provides imagery for the near-real time AMSR2 Level-2 Land product generated by the NASA Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) AMSR2 Processing Center at the Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC). The most recent imagery can be viewed here: http://go.nasa.gov/2llt57C.
The DoD STP-H5 (Space Test Program-Houston 5) payload package containing the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) to the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully installed and powered on, February 27. ISS LIS raw data are now being received at the LIS Payload Operations Control Center (POCC), shown in the image below, and transmitted to the GHRC DAAC. Beta software at the GHRC is generating preliminary data for review by the ISS LIS science team. Near-real-time and standard lightning products from ISS LIS will be processed, archived and distributed at the GHRC DAAC.
