The Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) published the GPM Ground Validation Rain Gauges NASA ACHIEVE IPHEx dataset which includes data from the OSi Optical Rain Gauge (ORG815) and a standard tipping bucket rain gauge. Both instruments are part of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) ACHIEVE ground-based mobile laboratory. Data was gathered during the GPM Ground Validation Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEx) in North Carolina from May 1, 2014 through June 15, 2014. Precipitation rate, temperature, and cumulative precipitation were measured. Data files are available in the netCDF3 data format.
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GHRC DAAC Manager Rahul Ramachandran serves as the Chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee. As a member of the Technical Planning Committee, he helped plan the program for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2015), held July 26-31 in Milan, Italy. He co-authored two presentations in the invited session “Why Data Matters: Value of Stewardship and Knowledge Augmentation Services.” Kaylin Bugbee of the GHRC data management group and affiliated GHRC researcher John Rushing were also co-authors.
“Advances in Automated Services” by Kuo, Kwo-Sen, Gyorgy Fekete, Amidu Oloso, Michael Bauer, Ramon Ramirez-Linan, John Rushing, Thomas Clune, and Rahul Ramachandran.
“Linking from Observations to Data to Actionable Science in the Climate Data Initiative.” Tilmes, Curt, Ana Pinheiro Privette, Jeffrey Chen, Rahul Ramachandran, Kaylin Bugbee, and Robert Wolfe.
The Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) published the GPM Ground Validation Vaisala Ceilometer IPHEx dataset. This dataset provides vertical profiles of aerosol backscatter, boundary layer structure, and cloud detection status and height collected during the GPM Ground Validation Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEx) by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) ACHIEVE ground-based mobile laboratory. Data files in the netCDF3 format are available for May 6, 2014 through June 16, 2014.
Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) was represented at the 2015 Summer Meeting of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, held July 14-17, 2015, by DAAC Manager Dr. Rahul Ramachandran (NASA/MSFC), Operations Manager Helen Conover, data management group member Kaylin Bugbee, and affiliated researcher Ken Keiser (all of the University of Alabama in Huntsville). Ms. Conover helped organize the ESDIS Standards Office session on “Developing and Emerging Standards, Practices and Technologies” and presented GHRC status and plans in the session on “Data Publication/Ingest Systems – Tools and Best Practices” session. GHRC Web Team member Ajinkya Kulkarni remotely presented the new Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) Drupal website in the "2015 ScienceOnDrupal Summer Lab" session. GHRC Web Team members Shannon Flynn and Matt He also remotely participated in several of the “2015 ScienceOnDrupal” sessions.
The three GHRC-submitted posters can be found below:
Providing Event-Driven Real-Time Data
CHORDS: A Deployed Standards-Based Architecture Enabling Re-use of Real-Time Data
GHRC personnel and members of the science team for the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) met with the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center on June 25. A second LIS instrument, sister to the LIS on the recently ended Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, will be to be deployed to the International Space Station (ISS) in early 2016. The POIC is the primary NASA ground system responsible for integrated operational payload flight control and planning for the ISS. This meeting was to discuss planned data flow from the ISS LIS instrument to the GHRC for processing, archive and distribution.
