Dr. Udaysankar Nair of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) recently took results from his research involving monitoring and prediction of landslides on the road to India, explaining the possible application of the technology to high-risk regions in that country. Dr.

The initial phase of the Iowa Flood Studies field campaign has begun.  IFloodS is the first of several hydrology-oriented field efforts that the GPM Ground Validation (GV) program is conducting.   GHRC is providing a collaboration portal for the field campaign team to exchange data and information including instrument status, mission science reports, weather forecasts and preliminary science data.  We have already begun collecting instrument data and model output for the region.  More instruments will come onlin

GHRC has released the GPM Ground Validation Meteorological Tower Environment Canada GCPEx dataset as part of the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) where data was gathered over the Ontario region of Canada in 2012 from Jan 15 through March 1. This dataset provides temperature, relative humidity, 10m winds, pressure and solar radiation data collected by a suite of standard meteorological instruments attached to a 10m met tower.

Dr. Sara Graves represented the GHRC at the International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Executive Committee meeting in Paris the week of April 14th as the Secretary General of CODATA. There were discussions with Dr. Steven Wilson, Executive Director of The International Council for Science (ICSU), about Future Earth and the data aspects of that large 10 year program. She also met with some representatives from the World Data System on collaborations on Future Earth and several other activities.

The Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC and data are now registered in Thomson Reuters’ Data Citation Index.  The Data Citation Index (DCI) is part of Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge, a multi-disciplinary index of science research publications.  The goal of the DCI is to support search and discovery of scientific research data and links to the published literature with appropriate citation metrics.  DCI, like the Web of Knowledge in general, is a resource that institutions subscribe to, and is available

GHRC has published the RSS Monthly 1-deg Microwave Total Precipitable Water netCDF dataset.  This Total Precipitable Water dataset provides 1 degree gridded data for the monthly means of total precipitable water, a 20 year climatology file, and a cumulative file with data from 1988 to the current month. This includes the anomalies for global mean precipitable water over Ice Free Oceans (60S to 60N) and the tropical mean for 20S to 20N.

For better search engine visibility GHRC has started adding the meta description tag to its existing dataset guides. As new guides are being written the description tag will be included. Guides have also been examined for compliance with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act. As new guides are being written, additional code is being added to increase 508 compliance.

GHRC’s application for membership in the International Council for Science (ICSU) World Data System (WDS) has been accepted by the WDS Scientific Committee (WDS-SC). Pending the finalization of a signed agreement with ICSU, GHRC will be a Regular Member of ICSU-WDS.

GHRC has installed and configured a new disk-based Sun Storage 720 archive. Systems administrators and data managers are planning directory layout, archive processes and migration from the existing tape-based Sun Storage L700 system. The new archive will start with 100 TB (usable) and is scalable to up to 2.6 PB raw capacity.

GHRC added the GPM Ground Validation Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) GCPEx dataset to its GPM GCPEX dataset collection. Collected from six sites in Ontario, Canada, the data contains daily ASCII files with information on individual snowflakes and hydrometeors, and also binary files preprocessed from raw camera data. Overall data dates range from 27 October 2011 through 27 February 2012 depending on the specific site.