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| Model Name | Start Date | End Date | Additional Information |
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| MERRA 2 | January 1, 1981 | Few Months Within Near-Real Time | Global Modeling and Assimiliation Office (GMAO) |
| GEOS 5.12.4 | End of MERRA 2 | To Near-Real Time | Global Modeling and Assimiliation Office (GMAO) |
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| SRB v3.0 | July 1, 1983 | December 31, 2007 | NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project |
| FLASHFlux 2(D,E,G,H) | January 1, 2008 | December 31, 2012 | CERES Fast Longwave And SHortwave Radiative Fluxes (FLASHFlux) |
| FLASHFlux 3(A,B) | January 1, 2013 | December 31, 2016 | CERES Fast Longwave And SHortwave Radiative Fluxes (FLASHFlux) |
| FLASHFlux 3(C) | January 1, 2017 | To Near-Real Time | CERES Fast Longwave And SHortwave Radiative Fluxes (FLASHFlux) |
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NASA's goal in Earth science is to observe, understand, and model the Earth system to discover how it is changing, to better predict change, and to understand the consequences for life on Earth. The Applied Sciences Program, within the Science Mission Directorate (which replaced both the Office of Earth Science and the Office of Space Science), serves NASA and Society by expanding and accelerating the realization of societal and economic benefits from Earth science, information, and technology research and development.
The Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project was initiated to improve upon the current renewable energy data set and to create new data sets from new satellite systems. The POWER project targets three user communities: (1) Renewable Energy, (2) Sustainable Buildings, and (3) Agroclimatology.
The Renewable Energy Archive is designed to provide access to parameters specifically tailored to assist in the design of solar and wind powered renewable energy systems.
The Sustainable Buildings Archive is designed to provide industry-friendly parameters for the buildings community, to include parameters in multi-year monthly averages.
The Agroclimatology Archive is designed to provide web-based access to industry-friendly parameters formatted for input to crop models contained within agricultural DSS.
Dr. Stackhouse is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. At NASA Langley Research Center, he is lead scientist of the NASA/Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project, a project responsible to use satellite and other analysis to estimate the long-term surface radiation budget and components. He is a science team member of the Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES) project and co-leads the FLASHFlux (Fast Longwave and Shortwave radiative Fluxes) working group that produces low latency estimates of top-of-atmosphere and surface radiation data products from CERES.
Using the long-term and near-real time data products from the science projects above, Dr. Stackhouse leads several NASA-funded Applied Science projects that customize, these data products along with meteorological input, for the energy-related and agricultural industries. These applied science projects are organized under the POWER theme and have led to the development of data sets and web interface tools for the solar energy and agricultural industries over the last 15 years. The web sites including the original Surface meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) has shown continued growth of the last few years eclipsing 20 million separate data requests. The POWER web site additionally serves low latency time series data sets with large outreach through connections to decision support tools and specialized data formats. Dr. Stackhouse completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University in 1989 and 1995 respectively.
A. Jason Barnett is a geospatial and technology developer for the POWER project team. He has a Masters of Agriculture from Iowa State University and was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Geography with an emphasis in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from Old Dominion University along with a GIS certificate. He leads web, python, cloud computing and data web services development support and assists with project management.
Bradley Macpherson is a geospatial and technology developer for the POWER project team. He holds a Master's of Spatial Analysis from Ryerson University and a Bachelor of Science with dual majors in Geography and Earth Science with concentrations in Atmospheric Science, Physical Geology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from Salisbury University. He leads the development and sustainment of the python-based POWER API, web services, and near real-time data processing.
Taiping Zhang has a Master of Science from Tianjin University (1987) and a Ph.D. from Yale University (2003). He has been working on the NASA GEWEX SRB and POWER projects since 2003 as a senior research scientist. His work focuses on 1.) The quality control and processing of surface-based shortwave and longwave radiation measurements that include data from the BSRN, SurfRad, GEBA and WRDC archives; 2.) Application of the surface-based data in validation of the satellite-based GEWEX SRB radiation data products and POWER SSE data products; 3.) Climatological analysis of the GEWEX SRB data products; 4.) with the GEWEX SRB global horizontal irradiance and other auxiliary data as inputs.
Colleen Mikovitz is a research scientist for the NASA POWER project team. She has a master’s degree in meteorology from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Science in meteorology from Florida State University. Her main duties for this team are to validate the meteorological data sets against global surface observing sites.
NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC)
Hampton, VA (USA)
larc-power-project@mail.nasa.gov
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The Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project was initiated to improve upon the current SSE data set and to create new data sets from new satellite systems and forecast modeling data.
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Acknowledgement: The Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project is funded through the NASA Applied Sciences Program within the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate. The POWER team could not have completed this task without both technical and scientific inputs from the following Earth Science Division teams: The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment's (GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (NASA/GEWEX SRB) and the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) projects at NASA LaRC and the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The data obtained through the POWER (Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources) web services was made possible with collaboration from the the NASA LaRC Sciences Data Center (ASDC).
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