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 co-investigator 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.