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Online visualization and analysis of NASA QuikSCAT and TRMM daily products
Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CEOSR, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, G. G. Leptoukh, and S. J. Kempler
To facilitate scientific users in accessing NASA satellite remote sensing data and increase interoperability among NASA data centers, the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC), home of the GES Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), has recently developed a simple tool (URL: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/trmm_quikscat_analysis.shtml) that allows users to visualize and analyze NASA's daily Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) ocean surface wind, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) sea surface temperature (SST). QuikSCAT, TRMM precipitation and TMI SST data are archived and distributed by the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the DISC and the Remote Sensing Systems, respectively. As a part of the DISC's Hurricane Portal (URL: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/), this tool is intended to facilitate researchers to investigate tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons around the world without downloading data. It also helps them to investigate other oceanic and atmospheric events, such as, precipitation, monsoon events, island blocking effects, etc. Current functions include area (latitude-longitude) and time series (area averaging) plots and their overlays. More capabilities will be added. Examples of using this tool will be given in the presentation. Similar tools for other DISC's data are also available (Giovanni URL: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/techlab/giovanni/index.shtml).
Poster Session 2, IIPS Poster Session II
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Exhibit Hall B
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