About GISS
Research at NASA's 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 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 Columbia University's Climate School and School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Recent Publications
Kadam, S., M. Ting, A.C. Ruane, and R. Seager, 2026: Western disturbance breaks and extreme spring heat over Northern India linked to quasi-stationary Rossby waves. Geophys. Res. Lett., 53, no. 12, e2026GL121896, doi:10.1029/2026GL121896.
Monhollon, L., A.C. Ruane, and W.D. Batchelor, 2026: LAI assimilation schedules to constrain uncertain cultivars and soils in CERES-Maize. Comput. Electron. Agr., 251, 111978, doi:10.1016/j.compag.2026.111978.
Kallenberg, M., D. Paudel, S. Ofori-Ampofo, H. Baja, R. van Bree, A. Potze, P. Poudel, A. Saleh, W. Anderson, M. von Bloh, A. Castellano, O. Ennaji, R. Hamed, R. Laudien, D. Lee, I. Luna, D. Masiliu̅nas, M. Meroni, J.M. Mutuku, S. Mkuhlani, J. Richetti, A.C. Ruane, R. Sahajpal, G. Shai, V. Sitokonstantinou, R.S. Nóia-Júnior, A.K. Srivastava, R. Strong, L.-B. Sweet, P. Vojnović, A. de Wit, M. Zachow, and I.N. Athanasiadis, 2026: CY-Bench: A comprehensive benchmark dataset for sub-national crop yield forecasting. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, no. 6, 3997-4018, doi:10.5194/essd-18-3997-2026.
Naud, C.M., R. Luna Niño, D.J. Posselt, J.A. Crespo, and A. Gershunov, 2026: Does convection in atmospheric rivers at genesis impact precipitation production later in their lifecycle? Clim. Dyn., early on-line, doi:10.1007/s00382-026-08241-w.
