Hurricane Data Analysis Tool: Global Merged IR Dataset Added

[Arlindo da Silva]

Dear Zhong,

This is a very impressive data collection. The tool is also very nice, but I
usually prefer to make my own plots. Do you think you could make all these
datasets available through an OPeNDAP interface so that we can integrate
them in our own analysis tools?

  Thank you,
       Arlindo


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Zhong Liu <Zhong.Liu-1 at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Hurricane Data Analysis Tool: Global Merged IR Dataset Added
>
> Scientists, students, and applications users seeking on-the-fly
> visualizations of hurricane-related satellite and model data can now
> visualize and get access to the NCEP/CPC 4-km Global (60ºN - 60ºS)
> Merged IR Brightness Temperature Dataset, through the publicly open GSFC
> Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) Hurricane
> Data Analysis tool:
>
> http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/trmm_quikscat_analysis.shtml .
>
> Merged IR Brightness Temperature Dataset documentation is located at:
>
>
> ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/Documentation/global_full_res_IR_readme
> .
>
> With a web browser and few mouse clicks, users can produce
> visualizations for all 8 years and 4.5 TB of Merged IR Brightness
> Temperature data and generate black and white IR imagery and animation
> without downloading any software and data, a priori. This is an
> important addition to the current collection of multi-sensor datasets
> already in the system, namely, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
> (TRMM) precipitation, TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) sea surface
> temperature (SST), NASA's daily Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) ocean
> surface wind, NCEP Reanalysis sea level pressure (SLP) and NCEP
> Reanalysis winds.
>
> The NASA Goddard Hurricane Data Portal:
>
> http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/
>
> currently a working prototype, is intended to assist researchers to
> investigate key parameters for tropical cyclones, hurricanes and
> typhoons around the world prior to selecting and downloading the data of
> most interest. It also helps them to investigate other meteorological
> phenomena, such as, precipitation, monsoon events, mesoscale convective
> systems, etc. Current functions include area (latitude-longitude) and
> time series (area averaging) plots and their overlays. More capabilities
> and data will be added in the future.
>
> The following are examples generated using the Hurricane Data Analysis
> Tool:
>
> 1) A large scale imagery on August 31, 2008 at 23Z showing Hurricane
> Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna and Tropical Storm Ike:
>
> ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/1/hurricane/animations/TropicalRegion.jpg
> (see below)
>
> 2) An animation generated by this tool showing the 4km IR images every
> 30 minutes for 19 hours of Hurricane Ike on September 07, 2008. The
> animation shows Ike's well developed eye and rotational movement as it
> moves to the West/Northwest:
> ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/1/hurricane/animations/HurrIke.gif
>
> QuikSCAT ocean surface winds are provided by the Physical Oceanography
> Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov)
> <http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%29> . TMI SST data are provided by Remote
> Sensing Systems (http://www.ssmi.com). <http://www.ssmi.com%29.> NCEP
> sea level pressure, zonal and meridional wind at 1000, 850, and 200 hPa
> level data are obtained from NCEP's Global Forecast System analysis
> (http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov.data). <http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov.data%29.>
>
> All other data are resident at the NASA GES DISC
> (http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov) <http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov%29>
>
> Similar interactive access to other data available at the GES DISC, as
> well as online visualization and statistical analysis, is available via
> the operational Giovanni system (http://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov).
> <http://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov%29.>
>
>
>
> --
> Zhong Liu, Ph.D.
> Zhong.Liu-1 at nasa.gov
> George Mason University and
> NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and
> Information Services Center
> NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2
> Greenbelt. MD. 20771  U.S.A.
> (301) 614-5764 (voice)
> (301) 614-5268 (fax)
> http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov
> http://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov
> http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/
> http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/trmm_quikscat_analysis.shtml
> http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/agriculture/ais_sup/current_conditions.shtml
>



-- 
Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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