GHRC held a User Working Group telecon on March 18, to review the test version of its new web site and discuss improvements needed before promoting the new site into production.
GHRC News
GHRC has completed several dataset guides related to a number of GPM Ground Validation and Hurricane Science field campaigns. The GPM Ground Validation Earth Networks Total Lightning Network (ENTLN) MC3E guide details information about the integrated in-cloud (IC) and cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning detection network data, which was measured during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), Spring 2011. Other dataset guides now available include the GPM Ground Validation NCAR Cloud Microphysics Particle Probes for MC3E and GCPEX (GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment), which provides information about particle size distributions and particle images collected by the 2D-C, Cloud Imaging Probe (CIP) and High Volume Precipitation Spectrometer (HVPS-3) instruments; and the GPM Ground Validation NEXRAD MC3E datasets (sites : KGLD, KICT, KINX, KTLX, KTWX and KVNX). GHRC also published the guide for the GPM Ground Validation NASA S-Band Dual Polarimetric (NPOL) Doppler Radar IFloodS dataset. The Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) took place April through June 2013 near Traer, Iowa. The MIPS Microwave Profiling Radiometer guide documents measurements from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Mobile Integrated Profiling System (MIPS). Providing temperature, water vapor, liquid water and cloud base temperature measurements, instruments gathering this data include a 915 MHz Doppler profiler, LIDAR ceilometer, 12 channel microwave profiling radiometer, Doppler SODAR, Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS), Field Mills, and surface observing station.
The NASA Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) AMSR2 Processing Center at the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC DAAC) in Huntsville, Alabama announced the availability of our first AMSR2 near real-time data set, NRT AMSR2 L2B Global Swath GSFC Profiling Algorithm 2010: Surface Precipitation, Wind Speed over Ocean, Water Vapor over Ocean and Cloud Liquid Water over Ocean. These LANCE AMSR2 near real-time products, with noted limitations, are generated and available to registered users via HTTPS with an average latency of less than 3 hours. LANCE AMSR2 is co-located with the AMSR Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) at the GHRC DAAC. The AMSR SIPS is responsible for the generation of climate research quality products; these products will be available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) beginning in 2016.
More information about LANCE AMSR2 near real-time data is available at http://lance.nsstc.nasa.gov/.
Members of GHRC staff attended a hands-on GIS Workshop provided by the University of Alabama Atmospheric Science Department (ATS) on February 27. This workshop provided insight into how GHRC data can be used in GIS systems, and should lead to further collaboration with ATS on tools and services offered by GHRC.
GHRC has published the GPM Ground Validation NEXRAD IFloodS datasets collected from four sites during March 29, 2013 to June 18, 2013 for the GPM Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) which occurred in eastern Iowa. The Next Generation Weather Radar system (NEXRAD) comprises more than 159 Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) sites throughout the United States and select overseas locations. The GPM Ground Validation NEXRAD IFloodS data files are available as Level 2 binary files, and provide radar reflectivity. More information including the Citation and DOIs can be found in their Guide.
GPM GROUND VALIDATION NEXRAD LEVEL II KDVN IFLOODS: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/IFLOODS/NEXRAD/DATA203
GPM GROUND VALIDATION NEXRAD LEVEL II KDMX IFLOODS: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/IFLOODS/NEXRAD/DATA202
