IFloodS

GHRC has installed and configured a new data/web server for our field campaign datasets. Last week, GHRC staff completed migration of over a dozen field campaign web sites and collaboration portals as well as the online data archive for our GPM Ground Validation and Hurricane Science data collections. The new server, a Dell PowerEdge R510 with 19 TB storage capacity, replaces an aging Dell PowerEdge R710 with 4.5 TB storage capacity, providing much needed growth to support the GPM-GV Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) campaign this spring.

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 online throughout April in preparation for the official start of the campaign on May 1.  During the field campaign, access to the collaboration portal  and quicklook data is restricted to team members.  We expect to begin receiving and publishing quality controlled data products from the mission in approximately six months.

The official start of the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Ground Validation Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) Field Experiment begins on May 1, 2013.   See https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/ifloods for the experiment overview.  To support the scientists in the field, the GHRC has developed a Drupal-based collaboration portal complete with instrument status reports, weather forecasts, schedules, mission reports, documents, and links to external datasets.  Numerous datasets and browse images have been ingested and uploaded to a Public FTP server (registration required) and the majority of those native datasets have been loaded into either a THREDDS (Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services) data server or GeoServer (an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data) for display on either a 2D Mercator or 3D Globe.  In addition, four of the NEXRAD (Next-Generation Radar) Level-2 datasets are being “animated” to show the last ten images in motion.

GHRC is supporting the ongoing Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Ground Validation Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) Field Experiment with a collaboration portal for the mission science team which provides for near-real time data acquisition; data access, visualization and map-based display; and science and instrument status reports.  IFloodS is featured on the EarthData web site as the DAAC Image of the Week.

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013, there was a video chat on the IFloodS field campaign including PI Walt Petersen. See this link to view a playback of the 1hr video chat: http://spaceref.com/earth/nasas-iowa-flood-study-hangout.html Dr. Walt Petersen leads the Field Support Office at NASA GSFC’s Wallops Flight Facility and oversees the Wallops Precipitation Research Facility.  He is the NASA GPM Ground Validation Science Manager, serves as Lead Scientist on the GPM-GV field campaigns, including IFloodS, which is going on now. GHRC is supporting IFloodS with a collaboration portal for sharing weather forecasts, instrument status, mission science reports and plans of the day, as well as real-time data acquisition and visualization tools.  We are the data archive for all the GPM GV field campaigns.

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 online throughout April in preparation for the official start of the campaign on May 1.  During the field campaign, access to the collaboration portal  and quicklook data is restricted to team members.  We expect to begin receiving and publishing quality controlled data products from the mission in approximately six months.