GHRC provided information on LIS data processing and long term archive, presented by Jeanne Behnke at the TRMM Decommissioning Review on March 17, and at the TRMM Phase F Review on March 24.

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 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.

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.

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.

Dr. Sara Graves, PI of the GHRC’s UAH team, attended a meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ISCU CODATA), held in Paris the first week of March, 2015. Dr. Graves is Secretary General of CODATA.

GHRC has published the RSS Monthly 1-deg Merged Wind Climatology netCDF dataset and its guide. This data set provides monthly means of wind speed and wind direction on a one degree grid, a 20 year climatology data file, and a cumulative data file containing monthly trends in wind speed anomaly.

The Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC has published the annual update to the suite of LIS/OTD Gridded Lightning Climatology data sets. The annual update includes an additional year of data added to all of the data sets and a new version number (V2.3.2014) in all of the file names. These ten data sets offer full, annual, monthly and diurnal climatologies of lightning observed from space from May 1995 through December 2013, including both Optical Transient Detector and TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor, at 0.5 and 2.5 degree resolutions.