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ReaSON CAN, MEaSURES and ACCESS programs
We are collaborating with several ReaSON CAN proposals. The DAAC’s role is
to provide counsel on data management issues, house certain products upon
NASA HQ approval, possibly with external funding. The following is a list of
projects that could produce data sets that could be added to the NSIDC DAAC
data collection.
Projects near completion with potential data transfers to NSIDC DAAC
GLIMS: Has been submitted to ESDIS for action after UWG review.
Polar Scatterometry: This project has developed data sets relevant to the
cryosphere community. In addition NSIDC scientist Dr. J. Stroeve is a coinvestigator on this proposal to the University of Utah and her role and funding
specifically calls for archival of data in the NSIDC DAAC. We will evaluate the
products following the UWG evaluation process.
Continuing Projects with direct links to NSIDC
The Cryospheric Change Analysis Web Services (CCAWS, ACCESS,
Stroeve PI) project will directly address a Greenland specific science need by
allowing the comparison of data and simplifying data access and delivery through
the use of modular services designed to support a map server portal to the data.
Every attempt will be made to reuse existing components, especially the existing
Searchlight Java infrastructure.
Enhanced Resolution SSM/I and AMSR-E Data
As part of the REASoN CAN grant with D. Long at BYU, NSIDC agreed to make
available the enhanced resolution passive microwave data developed under this
CAN. This includes enhanced resolution brightness temperatures from both
SSM/I and AMSR-E.
Projects with longer time horizons or less well defined links to NSIDC
Snow Cover High-Resolution Products: Dr. J. Dozier expects to archive the
derived snow cover products from this proposal. More importantly, NSIDC DAAC
will participate in the development and experimentation of distributed data
management via the Microsoft TerraServer technology partner.
DISCOVER: Dr. Frank Wentz, PI. We have had conversations with Dr. M.
Goodman at GHRC Huntsville about archival of their data upon completion of the
DISCOVER project. The initial DISCOVER project has ended. However, funding
of a follow-on DISCOVER like effort has been granted. In addition MSFC has
been re-established as a member of the Earth Science Data Centers. NSIDC
assumes that the DISCOVER team will continue the active archival and
management of their data at GHRC. We have not discussed specific actions.
New FY08 Awards
The following awards from the FY08 MEaSURES program have been assigned
to NSIDC for eventual management of data products. NSIDC DAAC will make
contact with each of these projects and open communication channels on how
best to support their data products.
Greenland Ice Mapping Project: Measuring rapid changes in ice flow.
(MEaSURES: I. Joughin PI) Dr. T. Scambos at NSIDC is a co-PI on this award.
Work at NSIDC under Scambos’ guidance will foster data sets to be archived
here.
Ice Velocity Mapping of the Great Ice Sheets, Antarctica. (MEaSURES: E.
Rignot, PI) Dr. T. Scambos is a co-PI on this award and will be coordinating
NSIDC DAAC efforts.
Earth System Data Record for Land Surface Freeze-Thaw State:
Quantifying Terrestrial Water Mobility Constraints to Global Ecosystem
Processes. (MEaSURES: J. Kimmel, PI). Initial contact will be made with Dr.
Kimmel’s team with the expectation that we can advise him on appropriate first
steps in data set preparation.
Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Climate Data Record, (MEaSURES, D.
Robinson, PI). We expect further interactions with Dr. Robinson’s team; however
we believe he will manage the data sets produced under this project for some
years to come. NSIDC already incorporates output from his snow cover products
in our EASE grid Northern Hemisphere snowcover extent data.