News & Feature Articles
Following are news releases, features and updates about research at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies written by NASA news services, GISS personnel, and affiliated offices. (Page 13 of 15)
Drought in Eastern Mediterranean is Worst of Past 900 Years
Study finds that the drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region — comprising Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey — is likely the worst drought of the past nine centuries.
(2016-03-01)
Improving Global Model Precipitation Patterns by Downscaling
The inability of global climate models to match the timing or placement of short-term or regional precipation patterns such as the West African monsoon may be alleviated by "downscaling" to use smaller scale climate models with increased area resolution.
(2016-02-17)
NASA, NOAA Reveal Record-Shattering Global Temperatures
Earth's 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
(2016-01-20)
Earth's Recent History Key to Predicting Global Temperatures
Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change. Researchers need to know the transient response and equilibrium sensitivity of climate forcings.
(2015-12-18)
Seeing Through the Smoky Pall: Indonesia's Fire Season
Thick peat, El Niño weather, and economic development in Indonesia came together to produce prodigious fires and planet-warming emissions. Scientists around the world used many different tools to better understand why the fires were so severe and what their impact was on human health and the environment.
(2015-12-01)
Declining Snowpacks May Cut Many Nations' Water
Snow is an important seasonal water source around large mountain chains. A new study has examined the potential effects of declining snow accumulations in many regions around the world, identifying areas that may be particularly vulnerable.
(2015-11-19)
Accounting for Climate's Backseat Drivers
The climate would be a much easier system to study if there was only one thing going on at a time. Unfortunately, all of the different external forcings happen independently. As climate changes, can we make any clear attributions to the individual factors?
(2015-10-23)
Smoke Blankets Indonesia
Fires in Indonesia are persistent, difficult to extinguish, and very polluting. Climatologists worry that this year could be very bad as a strong El Niño influences reduces regional rainfall.
(2015-09-27)
NYCRI Students Team with Teachers, NASA Scientists
Every summer, high school and undergraduate students team up with teachers and NASA scientists at NASA GISS in New York City. Known as the New York City Research Initiative, the program brings students and teachers face-to-face with premier scientists.
(2015-09-16)
Sea Level Rise Hits Home at NASA
The nation's problem of sea level rise is also NASA's problem, and not just because several satellites and hundreds of Earth scientists are monitoring the rising seas. Sea level rise hits especially close to home because half to two-thirds of NASA's infrastructure and assets stand within 16 feet of sea level.
(2015-08-26)
Three NASA Scientists Honored as AGU Fellows
Larry Travis and Cynthia Rosenzweig from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City as well as Lorraine Remer, an affiliate of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, have been named fellows by the American Geophysical Union.
(2015-08-10)
“Snowball Earth” Might Have Been Slushy
To better understand factors affecting the range of habitable conditions of exoplanets, GISS climate modelers go back in time to simulate the “Snowball Earth” conditions of 720 to 635 million years ago and find that complete freeze-over is hard to achieve.
(2015-08-04)
