Sherry Harrison attended the Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth Observing Systems (LANCE) User Working Group (UWG) meeting October 20, 2015 at NASA GSFC. Harrison presented the status of our LANCE Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Science 2 (AMSR2) activities to the LANCE UWG.
GHRC News
GHRC DAAC staff are attending weekly telecons with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission ground validation (GV) team in preparation for the Olympic Mountain Experiment (OLYMPEX) field campaign. OLYMPEX will take place in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula mid-November 2015 through February 2016. GHRC is providing the collaboration portal for the team to use in coordinating field campaign activities, and data from OLYMPEX will become part of the GPM GV collection archived at GHRC DAAC. Find out more at https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/OLYMPEX.
The Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) held its User Working Group meeting October 7-8. The primary focus of this UWG meeting was refining the GHRC's mission and direction for the coming years. The DAAC also reported on 2015 accomplishments and provided responses to last year's recommendations from the UWG. The GHRC DAAC UWG is led by outgoing chair Dr. Chelle Gentemann (Remote Sensing Systems), incoming chair Dr Christian Kummerow (Colorado State University), and co-chair David Wolff (NASA/GSFC/Wallops). Also attending were Kevin Murphy from NASA Headquarters; Dawn Lowe, Drew Kittel, Chris Lynnes, Katie Baynes and Steve Berrick from NASA's Earth Science Data and Information Systems (ESDIS) Project; Suresh Santhana Vannan from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) DAAC, and Steve Tanner from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) DAAC.
Pictures from the 2015 UWG meeting can be found on our Flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ghrcdaac/albums/72157659439272258.
The Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) updated its data discovery and access tool HyDRO. Dataset landing pages now offer download of data citations in machine-readable RIS format.
The Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) supported the Annual Rocket City Weather Fest event on October 3, 2015, by providing posters, NASA stickers, DVD’s, bookmarks, Sensing our Planet Booklets, and postcards. Weather Fest was hosted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) American Meteorological Society (AMS)/National Weather Association (NWA) Student Chapter and the Local Huntsville AMS/NWA Professional Chapter. It took place in the Shelby Center (main venue) and UAH Severe Weather Institute Radar and Lightning Laboratory (SWIRLL). This was a free event, open to the public, to attend talks about climate change, understanding weather radar, broadcasting severe weather events and taking weather photos. There was a panel discussion on the future of weather warnings, a weather balloon launch and a Skywarn Storm Spotter Training Class hosted by the Huntsville National Weather Service (NWS) Office. There were children's activities and games going on throughout the day and attendees checked out the weather research vehicles as well as explored the SWIRLL.
For more information, visit Rocket City Weather Fest at http://www.rocketcityweatherfest.com/.
