Surfit

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+# Surfit 🏄‍♂️
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+## Team Members
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+The following people contributed to our project throughout the week:
+* Project lead: Ben Purinton
+* Project lead: David Clemens-Sewall
+* Project lead: Jessica Badgeley
+* Helper: Nathan Kurtz
+* Helper: YoungHyun Koo
+* Team member: 'Ana Fonongava'inga Stringer
+* Team member: Chancelor Roberts
+* Team member: Emma Robertson
+* Team member: Karina Zikan
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+## Project Goals
+Our main goal for this project was to see if we could assess surface roughness along track-length scales comparing ATL03 and ATL06 ICESat-2 data, across two regions of interest. 
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+Our motivating question(s) were: 
+* Are surface roughness signals hiding in ATL03 at shorter along-track length scales compared with ATL06?
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+Some personal goals that were shared coming into this project were:
+* To familiarize ourselves with accessing ICESat-2 data via cloud (e.g., sliderule, earthaccess, etc.).
+* Learn more about the tools we've been introduced to in the tutorials. 
+* Learn how to access and subset ICESat-2 data. 
+* Become more comfortable learning and sharing work in a collaborative environment - team science! 
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+### Regions of Interest 
+We compared tracks from Black Rock Desert, Nevada and Utqiagvik, Alaska, our two regions of interest for this project. 
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+## Project Outcomes
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+* Ben created visualizations to assess ICESat-2 its limitations over short along-track length scale, supporting understanding of data noise and limitations. 
+* Karina provided a SlideRule tutorial that was adapted for the use of this project. 
+* Chance, Emma, and Jessica worked on accessing ATL06 photon data using SlideRule and created a [Jupyter Notebook] (link to notebook). 
+* YoungHyun obtained a geodataframe of the ATL03 data for the region of interest & analyzed how surface roughness varies with different yapc values. 
+* Nathan wrote code that takes photon clouds and attempts to retrieve the associated surface height distribution. This code assumes the surface height distribution follows a Gaussian or log-normal distribution, convolves this with the ICESat-2 transmit pulse, and attempts to find the distribution parameters (mean height and width or roughness). This version of the code runs over a granule near Utqiagvik.
+* David created [include his updates here].
+* Jessica provided support in project vision and bringing pieces together, identified a test track for the Black Rock ROI, and provided Git support for several group members.
+* Team members worked on increasing their familiarity with accessing ICESat-2 data from the cloud. 
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+## Future Efforts
+* Our team is considering expanding the regions of interest to include more diverse terrains to further validate our findings.
+* This work can potentially support future work in proposals for David's NCAR work in the near future.  
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