NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) begins its third season of observations this week. Two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft carry instruments to monitor tropical storms and the surrounding environment to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin. Data from the HS3 mission will be archived at and available from the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC).

GHRC has updated the composite guide for GPM Ground Validation Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) to include the Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) Field Experiment campaign information, data format and citation. The guide also covers the following experiments:

GHRC published two GPM Ground Validation guides for its GCPEx campaign datasets:  the GPM Ground Validation Dual Polarized C-Band Doppler Radar King City GCPEx  and the GPM Ground Validation Advanced Microwave Radiometer Rain Identification (ADMIRARI) GCPEx.    The GPM  Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) took place in Ontario, Canada from  January  through March 2012

GHRC has updated the GPM Ground Validation Met One Rain Gauge Pairs IFloodS dataset, which now has a more extended set of gauge files and also now includes “gmin” files that are interpolated to provide a one-minute rain rate. These data were collected from twenty-five tipping bucket rain gauge pairs deployed during the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Ground Validation (GV) Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) mission occurring in Iowa during April-June 2013.

ITSC Director S. Graves made a presentation on “Considering the Way Forward for Data Science and International Climate Science” at the Focused Technical Workshop: Improving Data Mobility & Management for International Climate Science on July 14-16 in Boulder, CO at the NOAA David Skaggs Research Center.

Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) has published the dataset GPM Ground Validation Met One Rain Gauge Pairs IFloodS. Twenty-five tipping bucket rain gauge pairs were deployed during the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Ground Validation (GV) Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) mission, which took place in Iowa during April-June 2013. Along with the disdrometers these rain gauges provided an additional means for directly measuring rainfall during the campaign.

Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC Manager R. Ramachandran participated in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Administrative Committee meeting July 11-12 in Quebec City, Canada. He chaired two sessions at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2014) conference, July 14-18. The first session, titled “Advancing Science through Management of the Geospatial Data Lifecycle,” focused on the role standards play at each stage in the sequence of processes by which knowledge is generated from geoscience observations, simulations and analysis.

Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) PI S. Graves made a presentation on “Considering the Way Forward for Data Science and International Climate Science” at the Focused Technical Workshop: Improving Data Mobility & Management for International Climate Science on July 14-16 in Boulder, CO at the NOAA David Skaggs Research Center.