NASA GISS: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

NASA Selects Cross Divisional Teams for Astrobiology Research

Artist's visualization of a possible surface and atmosphere of exoplanet Kepler 1649c.

Michael Way of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies leads one of seven teams that are part of NASA's new Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research. (2023-07-26)

NASA Offers Many Resources to Monitor Climate Change

Image taken from space over the Pacific Ocean looking east across Baja California, the Sea of Cortez, and beyond.

In light of recent extreme weather events in the United States and around the world, NASA held a media roundtable July 20 to highlight the agency's climate work. (2023-07-20)

NASA Finds June 2023 Hottest on Record

Global map of June 2023 temperature anomalies, with large areas in dark red indicating temperatures 3 or more degrees Celsius warmer than the 1951-1980 baseline. Warm waters in the Pacific off South America show the developing El Niño.

The Goddard Institute Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) found that June 2023 was 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 June baseline, the greatest such June anomaly measured. (2023-07-13)

Romanou Leads Group Studying Interactions Between Oceans, Climate

To honor World Ocean Month and discover how NASA scientists are helping us better understand the world's oceans in a changing climate, NCCS interviewed GISS's Anastasia Romanou, who has developed and used some of the most advanced models of the complex Earth system. (2023-06-30)

Simulations Probe the Impacts of Air Pollution on Premature Deaths

Photo of very smoggy conditions in New Delhi, India

Models from GISS and Aarhus University were used to study the impact of air pollution on premature mortality under several emission and population scenarios. (2023-04-26)

GISS Scientists Select Best Institute Paper of 2022

Scientists at NASA/GISS have voted the journal article “The Turning Point of the Aerosol Era” by Susanne E. Bauer et al. as the top work among the research publications by institute staff published in 2022. (2023-04-05)

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Recent Publications

Sinclair, J.A., R. West, J.M. Barbara, C. Tao, G.S. Orton, T.K. Greathouse, R.S. Giles, D. Grodent, and L.N. Fletcher, 2023: Long-term variability of Jupiter's mid-infrared auroral CH₄ emissions. Icarus, 115740, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115740.

Gonçalves Ageitos, M., V. Obiso, R.L. Miller, O. Jorba, M. Klose, M. Dawson, Y. Balkanski, J. Perlwitz, S. Basart, E. Di Tomaso, J. Escribano, F. Macchia, G. Montané, N. Mahowald, R.O. Green, D.R. Thompson, and C. Pérez García-Pando, 2023: Modeling dust mineralogical composition: sensitivity to soil mineralogy atlases and their expected climate impacts. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, no. 15, 8623-8657, doi:10.5194/acp-23-8623-2023.

Wilcox, L.J., R.J. Allen, B.H. Samset, M.A. Bollasina, P.T. Griffiths, J.M. Keeble, M.T. Lund, R. Makkonen, J. Merikanto, D. O'Donnell, D.J. Paynter, G.G. Persad, S.T. Rumbold, T. Takemura, K. Tsigaridis, S. Undorf, and D.M. Westervelt, 2023: The Regional Aerosol Model Intercomparison Project (RAMIP). Geosci. Model Dev., 16, no. 13, 4451-4479, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-4451-2023.

Carrol Steward, K., D. Gosselin, M. Chandler, and C.T. Forbes, 2023: Outcome of teaching about socioscientific issues in secondary science classrooms: Applications of EzGCM. J. Sci. Educ. Technol., early on-line, doi:10.1007/s10956-023-10068-7.

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About GISS

Research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) emphasizes a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man-made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one-time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal and annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.

GISS is located at Columbia University in New York City. The institute is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and is affiliated with the Columbia Climate School and School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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