GHRC Operations Manager Helen Conover (UAH/ITSC) attended the annual science team meeting for Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3), an Earth Venture 1 mission. She discussed GHRC requirements related to data formats, metadata and documentation, and presented a poster showcasing plans for the HS3 data system and soliciting ideas from the science team.
The Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEx), fifth in a series of Global Precipitation Mission Ground Validation (GPM GV) campaigns, begins on May 1, 2014. GHRC developed and is maintaining the IPHEX page. This collaboration site enables science teams to upload a variety of planning materials, including daily forecast presentations, plan of the day reports, mission scientist and instrument reports. GHRC has thus far ingested and prepared for download and display on the portal a total of thirteen ancillary data sets, including data from 7 NEXRAD2 stations. Additional data sets, including PI provided products, will be ingested and exposed as they become available. The AMES Mission Tool Suite (MTS) will be used for real-time flight tracking and reporting during the Experiment. Software to ingest the flight reports from the MTS has been developed and is in the final stage of testing. These flight reports will become part of the IPHEX archive along with other published datasets.
GHRC Engineer Kathryn Regner and software developer Dr. Amy Lin, both of UAH, attended the Critical Design Review for the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) instrument on International Space Station (ISS) on April 15, 2014. Ms. Regner presented charts showing the planned hardware architecture and data flow. NASA and UAH developed the space-based lightning observatory as a remote sensing tool under the Earth Observing System (EOS) program for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). LIS on the ISS will extend TRMM time series observations, expand latitudinal coverage, and provide real time observations in support of important and pressing science and applications objectives. The flight qualified spare will be flown as a hosted payload on the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) H5 mission and launched on the SpaceX Dragon in February 2016 for a planned two-year mission.
Dr. Sara J. Graves, PI of the GHRC’s UAH team, was elected to the GCOOS Regional Association Board of Directors, as an Education and Outreach representative.
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The Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) updated the GPM Ground Validation Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) NSSTC dataset. Previously this data was only available for the partial year 2010. The dataset now has been extended to include parts of years 2009 and 2011, as well as additional dates for the existing year 2010. As part of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission’s Ground Validation instrumentation set, the 2DVD is used to collect data at the National Space Science Technology Center (NSSTC) in Huntsville, Alabama when not on GPM-GV experiment deployment. The 2DVD uses two high speed line scan cameras which provide continuous measurements of size distribution, shape and fall velocities of all precipitation particles and types for its data collection. The GPM-GV NSSTC datasets (Joss Waldgovel , Parsivel, 2DVD) are part of the GPM-GV Related Dataset grouping, for those datasets not associated with the major GPM-GV experiments. This group also includes the Simulated Orbits for Canadian CloudSat/CALIPSO Validation Project (C3VP) and Tropical Warm Pool - International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE).
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