NASA's science aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions affect atmospheric composition and climate.
James E. Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, has announced he is retiring as the GISS director and leaving government service.
David Starr, project scientist of the PODEX experiment, discusses a new class of instruments that could reshape the next generation of atmospheric science.
Scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies recently voted "Simultaneously mitigating near-term climate change and improving human health and food security" by Drew Shindell et al. as the top work among over 100 research publications by institute staff published in 2012. The paper was published in the journal Science in January.
Runners-up included "Perception of climate change" by James Hansen et al.; " Aerosol direct, indirect, semi-direct and surface albedo effects from sector contributions based on the IPCC AR5 emissions for pre-industrial and present day conditions" by Susanne Bauer and Surabi Menon; "The added value to global model projections of climate change by dynamical downscaling: A case study over the continental US using the GISS-ModelE2 and WRF models" by Pavan Racherla et al.; and "Adjustment to radiative forcing in a simple coupled ocean-atmosphere model" by Ron Miller.
Research at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies emphasizes a broad study of Global Change, the natural and anthropogenic changes in our environment that affect the habitability of our planet. These effects may
occur on greatly differing time scales, from one-time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal/annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages.
The Institute's research combines analysis of comprehensive global datasets, derived mainly from spacecraft observations, with global models of atmospheric, land surface, and oceanic processes. Study of past climate change on Earth and of other planetary atmospheres provides an additional tool in assessing our general understanding of the atmosphere and its evolution.
GISS is located at Columbia University in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City. You can learn more about the institute at the GISS website.
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