GRIP Collaboration Portal: Information Management for a Hurricane Field Campaign

TitleGRIP Collaboration Portal: Information Management for a Hurricane Field Campaign
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsConover, H, Kulkarni, A, Goodman, M, Garrett, M, Smith, T
Conference NameAmerican Geophysical Union
Date Published12/2010
AbstractNASA’s Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment, carried out in August and September of 2010, was a complex operation, involving three aircraft and their crews based at different airports, a dozen instrument teams, mission scientists, weather forecasters, project coordinators and a variety of other participants. In addition, GRIP was coordinated with concurrent airborne missions: NOAA’s IFEX and then NSF-funded PREDICT. The GRIP Collaboration Portal was developed to facilitate communication within and between the different teams and serve as an information repository for the field campaign, providing a single access point for project documents, plans, weather forecasts, flight reports and quicklook data. The portal was developed using the Drupal open source content management framework.
Involved Persons: 
Helen Conover
Ajinkya Kulkarni
Michael Goodman
Michele Garrett
Tammy Smith