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GCPEX McGill W-Band Radar dataset published
GCPEx

GHRC published the GPM Ground Validation McGill W-Band Radar GCPEx dataset collected at Environment Canada’s Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments (CARE) in Ontario, Canada, as part of the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment from February 1, 2012 to February 29, 2012. The W-Band radar is a single antenna, 94-GHz pulsed Doppler, vertical pointing radar system. Data products from the W-Band radar include radar reflectivity, Doppler moments, and Doppler spectra of variable lengths. The W-Band radar is primarily used to research cloud properties. The GPM Ground Validation McGill W-Band Radar GCPEx dataset is available in netCDF format.

 

Two GOES Imagery datasets published
GOES satellite

GHRC published two GOES Imagery datasets: GPM Ground Validation GOES 13 Visible and Infrared Images MC3E and GPM Ground Validation GOES 13 Visible and Infrared Images GCPEx. These GOES datasets include IR3, IR4, and visiblity imagery files collected at 15 minute intervals in near real-time during the mission and were used by the Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM). The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place in central Oklahoma and has files available for dates between May 6, 2011 and June 30, 2011. The GPM Cold-Season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) occurred in Ontario, Canada, and has files available for dates between January 1, 2012 and March 13, 2012.

 

GHRC represented at ESIP Federation Assembly - Winter 2014
ESIP

GHRC was represented at the ESIP Federation Assembly in Washington, DC by Dr. Sara Graves, Helen Conover, Ken Keiser and Manil Maskey, all of the University of Alabama in Huntsville's Information Technology and Systems Center. GHRC is a collaboration between NASA MSFC and UAH ITSC. The group presented posters on GHRC's work with GPM Ground Validation field campaigns, as well as related research in cloud-enabled collaboration environments, innovations disaster planning and response, and data albums for aggregation and presentation of event information. Dr. Graves assisted in organizing sessions on real time data and disaster response. GHRC personnel participated in sessions on cloud computing, provenance, semantics, sustainability, project evaluation, and data science and analytics. Dr. Graves also participated in the Data Infrastructure Study Workshop organized by ESIP participants preceding the meeting.

GHRC Represented at 2013 AGU Fall Meeting
2013 AGU Fall Meeting

Dr. Rahul Ramachandran represented GHRC at the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. He organized two sessions on Big Data titled: "Big Data Analytic Systems: Computing and Collaborating Effectively in Distributed Systems with Martin Juckes (STFC), Michael Seablom (NASA), Frederic Laliberte (University of Toronto). Dr. Ramachandran was a lead author on a poster title "Collaborative workbench for cyberinfrastructure to accelerate science algorithm development". Manil Maskey (ITSC/UAH), Kwo-Sen Kuo and Christopher Lynnes (NASA/GSFC) were the other coauthors. The poster was presented in IN23B - Collaborative Frameworks and Experiences in Earth and Space Science session

In addition, Dr. Ramachandran presented "Data Albums: A synthesis engine to support case study and climatology analysis" in IN34A - Search, Discovery and Visual Representation of Scientific Data session and "Expanding the Role of an Earth Science Data System: The GHRC Innovations Lab" in IN32A - Emerging Technologies in Earth and Space Science Informatics. The latter presentation outlines an approach to infuse new technologies into the GHRC data system.

N34A-05. Data Albums: A synthesis engine to support case study and climatology analysis
Manil Maskey; Rahul Ramachandran; Ajinkya Kulkarni; Helen Conover; H Michael Goodman; Brad Zavodsky; Scott A. Braun; Brian D. Wilson

IN32A-02. Expanding the Role of an Earth Science Data System: The GHRC Innovations Lab
Helen Conover; Rahul Ramachandran; Tammy Smith; Ajinkya Kulkarni; Manil Maskey; Matt He; Ken Keiser; Sara J. Graves

 

GCPEx McGill Vertical Pointing X-Band (VertiX) Radar dataset published
GCPEx logo

GHRC published the GPM Ground Validation McGill Vertical Pointing X-Band (VertiX) Radar GCPEx dataset which collected data from January 15, 2012 to February 29, 2012 at the CARE site in Ontario, Canada as a part of the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx). The VertiX, a vertically pointing X-band radar, can detect all precipitation targets and some ice clouds. The VertiX can also measure the Doppler velocity of precipitation targets. The GPM Ground Validation McGill Vertical Pointing X-Band (VertiX) Radar GCPEx dataset is available in netCDF format.

 

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