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GISS Scientists Select Best Institute Paper of 2017

Scientists at NASA/GISS have voted the article “An improved convective ice parameterization for the NASA GISS Global Climate Model and impacts on cloud ice simulation” by Gregory Elsaesser et al. as the top work among over 180 research publications by institute staff published in 2017. (2018-08-15)

Forecasting Fire

One frame of an animation of the GFWED Fire Index

The Global Fire Weather Database accounts for local winds, temperatures, and humidity, while also being the first fire prediction model to include satellite–based precipitation measurements. (2018-07-03)

Will We Know Life When We See It?

Artist conception of an exoplanet surface

Thousands of planets have been discovered outside our solar system. If some of them host life, will we be able to recognize it? (2018-06-25)

Waves of Dust Over the Red Sea

Satellite image of dust over the Red Sea

Recent satellite imagery showed waves in the dust clouds blown from the Sahara Desert over the Red Sea. (2018-06-15)

Long-Term Warming Trend Continued in 2017

Earth's global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA. (2018-01-18)

Curvy Contrails

Viewing satellite imagery of clouds sometimes reveals curiosities in the sky. (2017-12-20)

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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

Yurkin, M.A., and M.I. Mishchenko, 2018: Addendum to "Impressed sources and fields in the volume-integral-equation formulation of electromagnetic scattering by a finite object: A tutorial". J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 219, 105-107, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.08.007.

Basso, B., B. Dumont, B. Maestrin, L. Shcherbak, G.P. Robertson, J.P. Porter, P. Smith, E. Paustian, P.R. Grace, S. Asseng, S. Bassu, C. Biernath, K.J. Boote, D. Cammarano, G. De Sanctis, J.-L. Durand, F. Ewert, S. Gayler, D.W. Hyndman, J. Kent, P. Martre, C. Nendel, E. Priesack, D. Ripoche, A.C. Ruane, J. Sharp, P.J. Thorburn, J.L. Hatfield, J.W. Jones, and C. Rosenzweig, 2018: Soil organic carbon and nitrogen feedbacks on crop yields under climate change. Agric. Environ. Lett., 3, 180026, doi:10.2134/ael2018.05.0026.

Puma, M.J., S.Y. Chon, K. Kakinuma, M. Kummu, R. Muttarak, R. Seager, and W. Wada, 2018: A developing food crisis and potential refugee movements. Nature Sustain., 1, 380-382, doi:10.1038/s41893-018-0123-z.

Pan, X., M. Chin, C. Ichoku, and R.D. Field, 2018: Connecting Indonesian fires and drought with the type of El Niño and phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole during 1979-2016. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., early on-line, doi:10.1029/2018JD028402.

Coffel, E., 2018: Extreme Heat and Its Impacts in a Changing Climate. Ph.D. thesis. Columbia University, doi:10.7916/D88358JX.

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