GHRC DAAC Manager Michael Goodman attended the 67th IHC/Tropical Cyclone Research Forum at the NOAA Center for Climate and Weather Prediction on March 5, 2013, and virtually on March 6.   GHRC data holdings include satellite, airborne and in situ data from many NASA hurricane science field campaigns including GRIP (Aug/Sept 2010), NAMMA (Aug/Sept 2006), TCSP (Summer 2005), ACES (Aug/Sept 2002), CAMEX 3 and 4 (Fall 1998, Fall 2001).

Dr. Sara Graves, the Director of UAH Information Technology & Systems Center (ITSC), which jointly manages GHRC with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), attended a meeting of the Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Science Advisory Board (SAB) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on March 5-7.  The ORNL DAAC is one of the key data centers in the CCSI.

The GPM Ground Validation NOAA Parsivel MC3E data collected during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) experiment in central Oklahoma contains moment data (reflectivity and rain rate estimates) or raindrop number concentration estimates.  This data provided a reference reflectivity to calibrate the S-band profiler during the experiment.

GHRC has published the GPM Ground Validation NOAA UHF 449 Profiler Raw Data SPC dataset. Using a phased array antenna configured to only point in the vertical direction, during MC3E the 449 MHz profiler measured the vertical air motion from approximately 200 to 2000 meters above the ground when precipitation passed over the profiler site.

The full suite of S-band profiler datasets from the GPM Ground Validation Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) is now available:


GPM Ground Validation NOAA S-Band Profiler Minute Data MC3E     

GPM Ground Validation NOAA S-Band Profiler Raw Data SPC format MC3E 

The Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC DAAC), a NASA Earth science data center managed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is pleased to announce the release of the version 7 SSMI/SSMIS F08, F10, F11, F13, F14, F15, F16, F17 Ocean Product Suite from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) in netCDF (v4) format.

The GHRC would like to also announce the availability of Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol, OPeNDAP, for our entire RSS Ocean Product Suite which includes data products for the SSMI/SSMIS instruments on the DMSP F08, F10, F11, F13, F14, F15, F16, F17 polar orbiting satellites.

The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) Science Team announces the release of version 2.3.2011 of the LIS/OTD Climatology data sets. The LIS/OTD Climatology data sets consist of gridded climatologies of total lightning flash rates seen by the spaceborne Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS). These data sets can be ordered from the GHRC DAAC using HyDRO or the lightning website.

NASA is currently flying an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle
a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring
snowfall from space. Working with Environment Canada, NASA's GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx)
is measuring light rain and snow in Ontario from Jan. 17 to Feb. 29.

The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place in central Oklahoma April–May 2011. The experiment was a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Ground Validation (GV) program.