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Dr. Sara Graves, Sandra Harper and Manil Maskey represented GHRC at the Northern Gulf Coastal Hazards Collaboratory meeting in Mobile, AL, June 12-14.  The NG-CHC - a collaborative environment for the coastal hazards research community in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama - has been developed to advance the science and engineering of coastal hazards across the region, including engineering design, coastal system response, and risk management of coastal hazards.  Two graduate student researchers with the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Information Technology & Systems Center presented posters.  Prabhash Jha presented Coastal Hazard Events Driven Automated Data Aggregation, Processing, and Delivery, which leverages Event Driven Data Delivery (ED3) initially prototyped at the GHRC, and Sabin Basyal presented NG-CHC Simulation Experiment Integration. GHRC is a partnership between NASA MSFC and UAH ITSC.   ITSC also leads the development of the collaborative environment for NG-CHC.

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. Satellite instruments used in calculating the means are the SSMI (DMSP-F8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15) and SSMIS (16, 17), AMSR-E (Aqua) and Windsat (Coriolis). This dataset is provided in both netCDF-3 and netCDF-4 formatted files.

GHRC’s undergraduate student researcher Kaylin Bugbee assisted Eric R. Anderson, NASA-SERVIR Research Associate, and undergraduate student Kel Markert, NASA DEVELOP team lead, in conducting a 3-day workshop on Geographic Information Systems for Advanced Placement Environmental Science students in two area high schools.  The workshop introduced students to basic GIS and water quality concepts, and gave students field experience recording, observing and actively comparing water quality data measurements.  Students were introduced to the NASA DEVELOP program, the GHRC Web site, GHRC’s HyDRO search engine, and UAH’s  Earth System Science department.  GHRC is located at the National Space Science and Technology Center along with other NASA programs and scientists and the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Atmospheric Science department.

GHRC has published the Regional Air Sea Interactions (RASI) web site http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/rasi/, an interactive tool for investigating coastal mountain gap wind events and resulting sea surface temperature changes due to ocean upwelling. RASI provides remote access and browsing of a climatology of gap wind and coastal ocean upwelling events detected by an automated intelligent algorithm developed as part of the DISCOVER project, funded by the NASA MEaSUREs program.

GHRC DAAC Manager Rahul Ramachandran (NASA/MSFC), UAH PI Sara Graves, and several other staff members attended the Suomi-NPP Applications Workshop, held in Huntsville, AL, November 18-20. The group presented a poster providing an overview of GHRC’s mission, data and service; and a poster on “GLIDER: Satellite Data Mining Made Easy.” GLIDER is a GHRC-related technology developed by UAH under the ACCESS program.