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5 Ways Supercomputing is Key to NASA Mission Success

n air flow visualization shows the vortex wake for NASA's six-passenger tiltwing concept Advanced Air Mobility vehicle

Whether developing new technologies for landing on other planets, improving air travel here at home, or more realistically simulating global weather and climate, supercomputing is key to the success of NASA missions. (2022-11-22)

Massive Volcanism May Have Altered Ancient Venus' Climate

Computer-generated perspective of a volcano on Venus

A NASA paper suggests that volcanic activity lasting hundreds to thousands of centuries may have helped transform Venus from a temperate and wet world to the acidic hothouse it is today. (2022-11-17)

Celebrating Nat'l Hispanic American Heritage Month: Dr. Clara Orbe

Photo of Dr. Orbe presenting at a science conference.

NCCS highlights GISS scientist Dr. Clara Orbe of Argentine heritage, from her early schooling to college career and eventually becoming a leading scientist at GISS. (2022-10-12)

Feeling the Heat in the Extremes

Map of US temperature increase on extreme stress days, 2074-2099 vs 1980-2005

If trends continue, oppressively hot and humid summers like the record-breaking heat waves in California will continue. (2022-09-16)

NASA's Cynthia Rosenzweig Receives 2022 World Food Prize

Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, received the international award on May 5. (2022-05-05)

GISS Scientists Select Best Institute Paper of 2021

Scientists at NASA/GISS have voted the journal article “CMIP6 historical simulations (1850-2014) with GISS-E2.1” by Ron Miller et al. as the top work among the research publications by institute staff published in 2021. (2022-04-05)

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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 Earth Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Recent Publications

Lesk, C., W. Anderson, A. Rigden, O. Coast, J. Jägermeyr, S. McDermid, K.F. Davis, and M. Konar, 2022: Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ., 3, no. 12, 872-889, doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00368-8.

Mogul, R., S.S. Limaye, and M.J. Way, 2023: The CO₂ profile and analytical model for the Pioneer Venus Large Probe neutral mass spectrometer. Icarus, 392, 115374, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115374.

Alexandrov, M.D., A. Marshak, B. Cairns, and A.S. Ackerman, 2022: Markovian statistical model of cloud optical thickness. Part I: Theory and examples. J. Atmos. Sci., 79, no. 12, 3315-3332, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-22-0125.1.

Christie, D.A., E.K.H. Lee, H. Innes, P.A. Noti, B. Charnay, T.J. Fauchez, N.J. Mayne, R. Deitrick, F. Ding, J.J. Greco, M. Hammond, I. Malsky, A. Mandell, E. Rauscher, M.T. Roman, D.E. Sergeev, L. Sohl, M.E. Steinrueck, M. Turbet, E.T. Wolf, M. Zamyatina, and L. Carone, 2022: CAMEMBERT: A mini-Neptunes GCM intercomparison, protocol version 1.0.A CUISINES Model Intercomparison Project. Planet. Sci. J., 3, no. 11, 261, doi:10.3847/PSJ/ac9dfe.

Luo, Z.J., G. Tselioudis, and W.B. Rossow (Eds.), 2022: Studies of Cloud, Convection and Precipitation Processes Using Satellite Observations. Lectures in Climate Change: Volume 3. World Scientific, doi:10.1142/12862.

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