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GHRC personnel attends and presents at HS3 annual science team meeting
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GHRC personnel attended the annual science team meeting for Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3), held May 5-7 at NASA Ames Research Center. HS3 is an Earth Ventures – Suborbital 1 mission, with data to be archived at and distributed by GHRC. Manil Maskey, lead developer for the HS3 information system at GHRC, and Dr. Xiang Li, atmospheric scientist at GHRC, discussed system requirements related to data formats, metadata and documentation. Maskey presented current status and plans for the HS3 data collection at GHRC along with prototype of the flight report browser, a key component of the HS3 data system.

GHRC DAAC Manager submits article to science magazine
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

GHRC DAAC Manager Dr. Rahul Ramachandran has submitted an article to IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine:

Ramachandran, R. and S. J. S. Khalsa, “Moving from Data to Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities,” IEEE GRSS (submitted).

GHRC discusses data with HS3 HIWRAP PI
The HIWRAP dual frequency Doppler radar hung under the Global Hawk. On the left, the golden disc is the antenna and on the right, the two small white discs are the radar beam transmitters, one for each of two frequencies. The whole apparatus spins while flying. Image Credit: Bill Hrybyk / NASA

On 21 April 2015, the GHRC team met with Dr. Gerald Heymsfield, Principal Investigator for the HIWRAP instrument of the NASA EV-1 Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission. The discussion focused GHRC DAAC data submission requirements, particularly CF-compliant metadata to be added to netCDF data files. Data documentation and citation were also discussed.

Preparations continue for ISS-LIS deployment
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Preparations continue for the deployment of a second LIS instrument to the International Space Station in February 2016. GHRC personnel are working with the LIS Science Team on an algorithm and test process.

GHRC represented at CCSI SAB meeting at Oak Ridge
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Dr. Sara Graves, UAH PI for the GHRC DAAC, attended a meeting of the Climate Change Science Institute’s Science Advisory Board (CCSI SAB) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on April 9-10. CCSI is researching a new generation of comprehensive, high-resolution Earth system models that predict the physical, biogeochemical, and coupled chemical evolution of the climate system.

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