Drs. Sara Graves and Rahul Ramachandran represented ITSC at the second plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), held September 16-18 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. RDA provides the framework to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability, through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy and practice. Dr.

Drs. Sara Graves and Rahul Ramachandran represented GHRC at the second plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), held September 16-18 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. RDA provides the framework to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability, through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy and practice. Dr.

The RSS Monthly 1-deg Microwave Total Precipitable Water netCDF guide describes the MEaSUREs product “Remote Sensing Systems Total Precipitable Water (TPW)”. This dataset is generated at Remote Sensing Systems, merging data from multiple satellite radiometers processed using RSS’s latest radiative transfer model, version-7.

GPM Ground Validation Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU) GCPEx guide provides data format information for the Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU), an optical disdrometer based on single particle extinction that measures particle size and fall velocity. This APU consists of the Parsivel, which was developed by OTT in Germany, and its support systems, which were designed and built by the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

The GPM Ground Validation NASA Micro Rain Radar (MRR) guide describes the data format and the vertically pointing Doppler radar which provides measurements of vertical velocity, drop size distribution, rainfall rate, attenuation, liquid water content, and reflectivity factor obtained during the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx), which took place in Canada during Winter 2011-2012.

GHRC continues to update its dataset guides to include more meta-tags and schema.org microdata to enhance the visibility in the search engines. This ongoing activity will continue until all existing guides are updated. The meta-tags and microdata are being included in any new guides as they are written.