GPM OLYMPEX: Ground Validation Campaign Reports

Flight reports, weather forecasts, instrument reports, scientist summaries, and plan-of-day reports were collected from November 2015 to February 2016 during the Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX). These documents support the ground validation of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission satellite data. The reports are available in multiple formats including PDF, JPG, PNG, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Word, some archived within tar files.

Use Cases

• Validating satellite precipitation retrievals based on in-situ instrument reports.
• Reconstructing flight operations and weather conditions using flight reports and forecasts.
• Analyzing campaign planning and scientific objectives from plan-of-day reports and scientist summaries.

Strengths

• Documents a specific, time-bound field campaign from November 2015 to February 2016.
• Contains diverse report types (flight, weather, instrument, summaries) for multi-faceted analysis.
• Hosted by a authoritative source (NASA).

Limitations

• Key metadata conflicts: one source lists a last update of 2026-04-10, while another lists 2016-01-22.
• No columnar or structured data is described; the dataset consists of unstructured document files.
• Specific license terms are not detailed, only listed as 'other-license-specified'.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected during the GPM Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) field campaign intense operating period.

Time Range

November 2015 to February 2016

Freshness

2026-04-10 02:40:38.401982 (conflicting with 2016 date)

Geography

Olympic Mountains region