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SSAI Successfully Supports the Framework for Live User-Invoked Data (FLUID)

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Recently, a group of SSAI team members were recognized as playing a pivotal role in the success of seven NASA field campaigns— Aeolus Cal/Val, SCOAPE, FIREX-AQ, ABoVE, CAROb, CAMP2Ex, and MOSAiC. For the first time ever, robust mission support was extended beyond Monitoring and Validation, and included Data Services and Tools activities, System Software Development, Testing and Maintenance, and Data Production Operation.

Dr. Brian Duncan of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center had this to say about the team’s SCOAPE support: “The forecasts aided our efforts in a number of ways, including daily sampling planning, SCOAPE data interpretation, and looking ahead to what photochemical environments that we may encounter. The tailored plots for SCOAPE were excellent. Though the SCOAPE data are preliminary, the scientists on the boat reported back on numerous occasions that the simulated pollutant concentrations (e.g., ozone, CO, NO2), were pretty much spot on with their measurements, including in areas of rapid transition between photochemical regimes.” 

Overview

An SSAI-led team is responsible for the development and maintenance of NASA’s Global Modeling Assimilation Office (GMAO) Framework for Live User-Invoked Data (FLUID)— a tool that provides applications for interactive analysis and visualizations of experimental, climatological data in support of the GMAO mission. Adopting more modern approaches to user-invoked data, or providing data "as-needed," implies the need for more efficient and intuitive access to data and scalability. Built where the data lives, FLUID applications tie together GMAO experimental data with products delivered to scientists at the GMAO, other NASA organizations, and countless other scientific centers. 

GMAO provides real-time support using FLUID to several NASA field campaigns each year. Forecasts, data assimilation products generated from the GEOS real-time production system, as well as web-based visuals, are made available to the campaign. Typically, these products and tools are used for flight planning and on-site and post-mission analysis of the field measurements.

 

 

Results

Recently, a group of SSAI team members were recognized as playing a pivotal role in the success of seven NASA field campaigns— Aeolus Cal/Val, SCOAPE, FIREX-AQ, ABoVE, CAROb, CAMP2Ex, and MOSAiC. For the first time ever, robust mission support was extended beyond Monitoring and Validation, and included Data Services and Tools activities, System Software Development, Testing and Maintenance, and Data Production Operation. 
During the height of that mission season, the SSAI-led team worked long hours and weekends to efficiently accommodate real-time support, last minute requests, and complex custom services.  

Thanks to the dedication, availability, and continuous improvements offered by the SSAI-led team, the scientific community’s satisfaction with the FLUID’s results have grown exponentially, and its popularity continues to increase in parallel.