6. Data Management  [Table of Contents]

Several types of information and data will be generated during the HEAT field campaign. To make access to the information easy for all participants, a website will be established for the campaign. During the campaign, participants will be able to access daily operation logs, daily forecast discussions, and ‘preliminary products’ generated from instruments. After completion of the field campaign, the website will be a place for participants to download or request copies of all archived datasets. Josh Santarpia of Texas A&M University will be the webmaster for the HEAT campaign website.

6.1 Logs and summaries  [Table of Contents]

An Operations Center participant will be assigned to record a summary of the debriefing of the previous day’s operation.  The Ops. Center participant will also be responsible for making a summary of the daily facilities’ status and probable mission scenario.  These summaries will be immediately forwarded to the webmaster for posting on the HEAT website.  The HEAT forecaster will be responsible for forwarding a copy of the day’s forecast briefing to the webmaster after the morning brief. 

Coordinators in the Operations Center will be responsible for keeping logs of important events during the field campaign. In addition, individual facilities and mobile units will maintain logs of important events involving their respective facilities. A copy of logs from all facilities will be gathered on a weekly basis. These logs will become part of the field study archives on the web for participants to download.

6.2 Data archives  [Table of Contents]

Data from instruments in the NSF facilities deployment pool will be handled by the respective institutions.  The instruments included in this category are the UWKA, the WMI Lear jet, the CSU-CHILL radar, the S-Pol radar, the MGLASS units, and the TAOS stations. The institutions will be responsible for their own quality control, data processing and archiving.  Data from HEAT instrument stations, not in the NSF facilities deployment pool, will be processed and archived by the primary institution, Texas A&M University. 

As was stated in Section 5.1.3, radar data from the NWS WSR-88D radar will be recorded during the HEAT field study and archived at Texas A&M University. A HEAT participant can obtain archived radar data from other nearby NWS radars upon request. The HEAT campaign will rely on archives of other NWS observations and model data that are routinely done by NCAR. Lastly, archived lightning information from the NLDN will be obtained from Vaisala-Global Atmospherics, Inc. after the completion of the field campaign.