MEaSUREs Projects Data Support GES DISC User Working Group

May 10-11, 2011

Bruce VollmerBruce.E.Vollmer@nasa.gov

301-614-5373

MEaSUREs Datasets at the GES DISC

PI Start Date

End Date

Title

Chung-Lin Shie

12-May-08

11-May-11

Reprocessing of Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF) Data Set for Global Water and Energy Cycle Research

Richard McPeters

15-Jan-08

15-Jan-13

Creating a Long Term Multi-Sensor Ozone Data Record

Lucien Froidevaux

15-Mar-08

15-Mar-13

GOZCARDS: Global OZone Chemistry And Related trace gas Data records for the Stratosphere

Jay Herman 15-Mar-08

15-Mar-13

Earth Surface and Atmospheric Reflectivity Since 1979 from Multiple Satellites (TOMS, SBUV, SBUV-2, OMI, SeaWiFS, NPP, and NPOESS)

Christina Hsu

1-Apr-08

1-Apr-13

Consistent Long-term Aerosol Data Records over Land and Ocean from SeaWiFS

Eric Fetzer 15-May-08

15-May-13

A Multi-Sensor Water Vapor Climate Data Record Using Cloud Classification

Eric Wood 15-Jun-08

15-Jun-13

Developing consistent Earth System Data Records for the global terrestrial water cycle

Timeline• MEaSUREs Projects started early to mid 2008

• GES DISC first made contact in mid 2009 as part of the GES DISC MEaSUREs Working Group in conjunction with GES DISC User Working Group Meeting

• Work with MEaSUREs Principal Investigators (PIs) began in earnest in early 2010 (resources made available)

• POCs identified for each MEaSUREs Project assigned to GES DISC (March 2010)

• Ongoing, interactive information exchange amongst POCs and PI Teams

• GES DISC provided initial draft of data format/ metadata/file naming convention to PIs (Sep 2010)

• Dedicated MEaSUREs server procured (Oct 2010); server online May 2011

• 2nd GES DISC MEaSUREs Working Group Meeting May 2011

MEaSUREs Support• Nominal period of support is L-2 through L+8

– Launch = receipt of data

• Pre-Launch activities– ICD or Ops Agreement– Metadata specification– Data preparation (format)– Data set documentation (README, DIFs, User Guide, Web Portal, etc.) – Identification of appropriate services (e.g., Subsetting, OPeNDAP, WMS, etc.)– Address data provenance

• Post-Launch activities– Reconcile data holdings with PI– Make data available (FTP, Mirador, ECHO)– Respond to users for data and information requests– Update Web portal and documentation as necessary– Support User Science user Community

MEaSUREs Projects Highlights

Chung-Lin Shies' surface turbulent flux• Data released through GES DISC October 2010• MEaSUREs products are available in HDF-EOS5 format versus the previous binary format allowing more

usability to a broader community. Lucien Froidevaux’s global ozone chemistry and trace gas

• working with AURA MLS and GEOS-5 data • data will be available in netCDF (modeling community is the predominant user community)

Richard McPeters total ozone merged data • integrating data from Aura OMI and MLS, TOMS/SBUV • working with HDF-EOS5 and ASCII data formats

Christina Hsu’s Long Term Aerosol data• current GES DISC staff are part of PI’s development team• applying expertise from several aerosol related projects and data

Jay Herman’s surface and atmosphere reflectivity • expanded UV reflectivity data set utilizing data from TOMS, SBUV, SBUV-2, OMI and SeaWiFS • developing data format specs consistent with Aura products; new zonal data

Eric Fetzer’s multi-sensor water vapor data• preliminary data available through GES DISC (8 months AIRS-Cloudsat matchups)• collaborative ACCES Project on data provenance

Eric Wood’s terrestrial water cycle data• met with full project team Feb 2010 at Princeton• 4 data product groups identified; format likely to be netCDF (netCDF4!)