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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.
Recent Publications
Raven, J., C. Braneon, and C. Rosenzweig, 2021: Embedding climate change in urban planning and urban design in New York City. In Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities. C. Ren and G. McGregor, Eds., Biometeorology, vol. 5. Springer, pp. 45-70, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5_3.
Li, X.-Y., H. Wang, J. Chen, S. Endo, G. George, B. Cairns, S. Chellappan, X. Zeng, S. Kirschler, C. Voigt, A. Sorooshian, E. Crosbie, G. Chen, R.A. Ferrare, W.I. Gustafson, J.W. Hair, M.M. Kleb, H. Liu, R. Moore, D. Painemal, C. Robinson, A.J. Scarino, M. Shook, T.J. Shingler, K.L. Thornhill, F. Tornow, H. Xiao, L.D. Ziemba, and P. Zuidema, 2022: Large-eddy simulations of marine boundary-layer clouds associated with cold air outbreaks during the ACTIVATE campaign — Part 1: Case setup and sensitivities to large-scale forcings. J. Atmos. Sci., 79, no. 1, 73-100, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-21-0123.1.
Lopez, J.R., J.M. Winter, J. Elliott, A.C. Ruane, C. Porter, and G. Hoogenboom, 2022: Sustainable use of groundwater may dramatically reduce irrigated production of maize, soybean, and wheat. Earth's Future, 10, no. 1, e2021EF002018, doi:10.1029/2021EF002018.
Peteet, D., 2021: Wally Broecker — Using radiocarbon for puzzles of the glacial and deglacial environment. Radiocarbon, early on-line, doi:10.1017/RDC.2021.87.
Field, R.D., J.E. Hickman, I.V. Geogdzhayev, K. Tsigaridis, and S.E. Bauer, 2021: Changes in satellite retrievals of atmospheric composition over eastern China during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, no. 24, 18333-18350, doi:10.5194/acp-21-18333-2021.
