HR: 0800h
AN: U31A-0004    [Abstracts]
TI: Integrating Data From NASA Missions Into NOAA's Pacific Region Integrated Climatology Information Products (PRICIP) Project
AU: Teske, C
EM: fyrfytr2@gmail.com
AF: DEVELOP NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 242-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, United States
AU: Simons, N
EM: nekoliz@yahoo.com
AF: DEVELOP NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 242-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, United States
AU: * Garcia, F
EM: frankieg5000@umail.ucsb.edu
AF: DEVELOP NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 242-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, United States
AU: Ingham, J
EM: ingh3476@uidaho.edu
AF: DEVELOP NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 242-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, United States
AU: Gupta, S
EM: seemagupta123@gmail.com
AF: DEVELOP NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 242-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, United States
AU: Schmidt, C
EM: cschmidt@mail.arc.nasa.gov
AF: DEVELOP NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 242-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, United States
AU: Skiles, J
EM: joseph.w.skiles@nasa.gov
AF: DEVELOP NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 242-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, United States
AB: Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are devastating to coastal areas throughout the world, especially in the Pacific Region. The strong winds, heavy rains, and high seas elements that accompany tropical storm events are of interest to researchers and forecasters alike. In a recent collaboration, NASA DEVELOP interns have teamed up with NOAA researchers to enhance their ongoing Pacific Region Integrated Climatology Products (PRICIP) project by integrating NASA mission data products. The PRICIP project will eventually become an interactive decision support tool that will assist decision makers in mitigating and recovering from natural hazards eventually reducing coastal vulnerability. DEVELOP's contribution to this ongoing project included creating hindcasts for three past extreme storm events using data from instruments on four NASA missions, QuikSCAT, TRMM, Jason-1, and Aqua. The hindcasts were in the form of interactive geovisualizations, and highlighted the strong winds, heavy rains, and high sea storm elements that were of interest to NOAA researchers. These interactive geovisualizations will contribute directly to NOAA's PRICIP decision support tool, and as they will be placed on NOAA's web portal, they will be accessible to researchers and the public through a web browser.
DE: 0460 Marine systems (4800)
SC: Union [U]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting