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  • Internal structure of Hurricane Isaac depicting precipitation intensity and lightning from LIS
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What's New

Moment Data from the GPM Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) Now Available
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 ...

New Dataset Published
GHRC has published the GPM Ground Validation NOAA UHF 449 Profiler Raw Data SPC dataset ...

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About the GHRC

The Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) provides both historical and current Earth science data, information, and products from satellite, airborne, and surface-based instruments. The GHRC acquires basic data streams and produces derived products from many instruments spread across a variety of instrument platforms. The GHRC is supported by NASA and is the data management and user services arm of the Global Hydrology & Climate Center (GHCC) in Huntsville, Alabama.
 
Search and Access Data
We have all of the GHRC data holdings available through our search and order tool, HyDRO at http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/hydro/. If you know specifically what GHRC datasets you want, you can go directly to the Dataset List page. Please contact GHRC User Services at ghrcdaac@itsc.uah.edu if you have any questions.
Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)
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The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place in central Oklahoma during the April–June 2011 period. The field campaign leveraged the unprecedented observing infrastructure currently available in the central United States, combined with an extensive sounding array, remote sensing and in situ aircraft observations, NASA GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) ground validation remote sensors, and new ARM instrumentation purchased with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. The overarching goal was to provide the most complete characterization of convective cloud systems, precipitation, and the environment that has ever been obtained, providing constraints for model cumulus parameterizations and space-based rainfall retrieval algorithms over land that had never before been available.
Lightning Imaging Sensor
Two space-based instruments have collected lightning data worldwide for the past fifteen years, first the Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and later the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS). Using the vantage point of space, these instruments have made observations that have led researchers here at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center to make significant strides in understanding the distribution, nature, and frequency of lightning on a global scale.
Hurricane Studies
The Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX) archive provides data from the 1998 CAMEX-3 field experiment and the 2001 CAMEX-4 field experiment in Jacksonville Florida. Data is also available from the Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) mission in 2005 in Costa Rica and NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) mission in 2006 in the Cape Verde Islands. These experiments produced high-resolution spatial and temporal information of hurricane structure, dynamics, and motion.
The DISCOVER Project
The primary objective of the Distributed Information Services for Climate and Ocean Products and Visualizations for Earth Research (DISCOVER) Project is to provide highly accurate, long-term ocean and climate products suitable for the most demanding Earth research applications via easy-to-use display and data access tools. Global hydrological parameters such as sea surface temperature, atmospheric water vapor, wind direction, and atmospheric temperature, are derived from several passive microwave instruments aboard TRMM, NOAA-15, NOAA-16, and SSM/I satellites.
Most data are publicly available, although some restrictions apply on the distribution of commercially obtained data. All data and products are currently free of charge. Select Dataset list from the menu for a complete list of our data holdings. Please contact GHRC User Services if you need additional information or assistance in navigating these pages.