GPM IPHEx Campaign Ground Validation Reports and Flight Logs

Forty-four days of reports from the Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment campaign, spanning May 1 to June 13, 2014. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration collected flight reports, weather forecasts, instrument logs, and mission science reports during this intense observation period. These documents provide detailed operational context for validating satellite precipitation measurements in the complex terrain of the Southern Appalachians.

Use Cases

• Analyzing flight report narratives to correlate aircraft observations with satellite overpasses.
• Reviewing instrument reports to assess sensor performance and data quality during specific mission days.
• Using weather and GPM flight forecasts to understand the decision-making context for mission execution.
• Studying mission science reports to gain insights into preliminary findings and campaign objectives.
• Examining plan-of-day reports to reconstruct the operational timeline and strategy of the field campaign.

Strengths

• Provides detailed, day-by-day operational context for a 44-day intensive field campaign.
• Includes multiple report types (flight, weather, instrument, science) offering a multifaceted view of campaign activities.
• Contains attached documents within reports, adding depth and supporting information.
• Supported by NASA, indicating a level of institutional rigor and association with the GPM mission.

Limitations

• The exact number of reports, rows, and dataset size is unspecified across all platforms.
• Conflicting license information: one platform specifies 'other-license-specified' while another lists 'None'.
• Column names and a structured data schema are not provided, limiting machine-readability.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Reports filed by scientists during the GPM Ground Validation IPHEx field campaign.

Time Range

2014-05-01 to 2014-06-13

Freshness

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Geography

Southern Appalachians, extending into the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions of North Carolina, USA.