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Photos of six Hispanic American staff members

NCCS Celebrates National Hispanic American Heritage Month

09.17.2021
With roots as diverse as Spain, El Salvador, and Puerto Rico, six Hispanic Americans working with the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) bring dedication and joy to supporting and accelerating NASA science.
Figure showing average illumination of the Sun at the Lunar South Pole

NCCS Enables High-Resolution Elevation Maps of Moon’s South Pole

08.27.2021
Empowered by NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) resources, scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Brown University built new high-resolution elevation maps near the Moon’s South Pole to enhance NASA lunar science and exploration.
Photo of Tom Schardt and computer rooms old and new

Supercomputers for Science: Honoring Tom Schardt’s NASA Legacy

08.20.2021
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) reflects back on Robert H. Goddard Legacy Award winner Tom Schardt, who had an impactful, 37-year career at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, centered around the support of science through the use of high-end information technology.
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NCCS User Spotlight: Dr. David New

08.06.2021
To better understand how early-career scientists are using NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) resources, we interviewed NASA post-doc David New, who fine-tunes weather prediction models at NASA Goddard’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.
photos of seven interns

NCCS Celebrates National Intern Day!

07.29.2021
To honor National Intern Day, the NASA High-End Computing Program at Goddard Space Flight Center introduces the summer 2021 NASA interns working in various groups across the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO).
Photo of forest

Scientists Measure Impacts of Fire and Other Disturbances on North American Boreal Forest Biomass

07.23.2021
Leveraging NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and Boston University (BU) high-performance computing resources, academic researchers analyzed 31 years of satellite data to measure how disturbances including fire and timber harvests have impacted the aboveground biomass (AGB) in North American boreal forests.
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NCCS User Spotlight: Dr. Marshall Shepherd

07.14.2021
To highlight one of NASA’s most renowned supercomputing users, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) spoke with the ground-breaking, prolific, and award-winning atmospheric scientist Dr. Marshall Shepherd.
The visualization shows the configuration and speed of the solar wind and magnetic field lines during a streamer-blowout eruption and coronal mass ejection

NCCS-Hosted Simulations Bring to Light a New Type of Coupled Eruption from the Sun

06.25.2021
Using the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer, scientists simulated complex interactions between large structures in our Sun’s atmosphere that unexpectedly produced a new type of “coupled eruption.”
Mike Little

NCCS Staff Spotlight on Mike Little: Time Traveling in NASA Supercomputing

06.18.2021
To better understand the roots of using supercomputing for science at NASA, NCCS staff member Mike Little shared Goddard's beginning with the IBM System/360 and the Beowulf computer cluster.
Research Vessel FG Walton Smith

NCCS User Spotlight: Robin Kovach

06.08.2021
To celebrate World Ocean Day, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) spoke with one of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s ocean scientists, Robin Kovach.
Cassin’s Sparrow range maps

CISTO Scientists Adapt MaxEnt to Address the Big Data Challenges of Climate Science

05.22.2021
Researchers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) are working to overcome the MaxEnt software’s Big Data limitations by testing a more effective method of using large, high-dimensional datasets, like those produced by global climate models.
The Orroral Valley Fire rages on January 28, 2020

NCCS-Enabled Satellite Data Assimilation Reveals Vegetation Changes from Massive Australian Bushfires

05.14.2021
To better understand how Australia’s unprecedented 2019–2020 fire season affected vegetation, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists and international collaborators mounted an experiment at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), assimilating NASA satellite data into a computer model and analyzing the output.
Photo of campus of University of Hawaii at Manoa

NCCS Staff Spotlight: Ying Shen

05.07.2021
In honor of Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) recognizes the contributions of a staff member who exemplifies the best qualities of this team, contributing every day to NASA’s missions and supporting scientific research through his hard work and many talents.
Plot of Global mean surface temperature anomalies

GISS and NCCS Contribute to CMIP6 International Climate Model Intercomparison Project

04.30.2021
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) contributed results from hundreds of the institute’s historical and future climate simulations to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). The GISS simulations ran on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer.
Lesley Ott speaks in front of a hyperwall image

NCCS User Spotlight: Lesley Ott

04.21.2021
As part of NASA’s Earth Day celebration, this spotlight shines on Lesley Ott — from her growing up in the Washington, DC suburbs with a mother who taught math and science to her challenging work today as a research meteorologist in NASA Goddard’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.
Mary Aronne points to an image on her AGU poster

NCCS Staff Spotlight: Mary Aronne

03.26.2021
Honoring Women's History Month, this spotlight focuses on Mary Aronne’s journey from visiting NASA Goddard as a child to working there today as a support scientist at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
Photo of a section of the Pasang Lhamu Highway on the way to Dhunche, Langtang National Park, Rasuwa, Nepal.

New NASA Landslide Mapping System Running at NCCS

03.12.2021
Empowered by NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) high-performance computing resources, a new open-source landslide mapping system is enabling swift landslide detection and information sharing with emergency response agencies.
This visualization depicts specific humidity at atmosphere Level 54

High-Performance Supercontainers Show Promise for Earth System Prediction

02.16.2021
Using a NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) supercomputer and other high-performance computing platforms, the multi-agency Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) successfully demonstrated software “supercontainers” for its next-generation Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI) system.
This illustration shows a coronal mass ejection erupting from the Sun (left) and the resulting solar storm colliding with Earth’s protective magnetic field, the magnetosphere (right)

Machine Learning Study Identifies the Internal Structure of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections

01.29.2021
In a machine learning study supported by the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and university heliophysics researchers have gained insights into the internal structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections—gigantic clouds of magnetized gas that erupt from the Sun and travel through the solar system.
Full-disk image of the Sun captured at an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength

Heliophysics Hackweek 2020 Coronal Holes Team Publishes Results at NeurIPS 2020

01.14.2021
Helio Hackweek 2020 “Coronal Holes” team members and other hackweek participants continued their collaboration and published a paper and poster of their results at the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. “SEARCH: SEgmentation of polAR Coronal Holes,” was published at the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop.
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NCCS-Enabled Science Advances Being Presented at Online AMS Annual Meeting

01.06.2021
From more accurate hydrology forecasts to improved understanding of cyclone dynamics, science advances enabled by NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) resources are the subject of posters and virtual presentations at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS 101), being held online January 10–15, 2021.
Illustration of ISS in orbit

NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020

12.21.2020
"NASA has impressed the nation with our resilience and persistence during the pandemic," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
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NASA Goddard’s AI Center of Excellence Connects Scientists and Engineers to the Latest Advances in Artificial Intelligence

12.18.2020
The mission of the AI Center of Excellence is to enable new AI techniques for scientific discovery, providing scientists within NASA Goddard and their partners beyond NASA with resources for increased collaboration, innovation, and co-learning.
Graphic showing NO2 levels over Europe

NCCS Supports Monitoring the Global Decline of Air Pollution During the COVID-19 Pandemic

12.10.2020
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and university scientists researched the decline and subsequent recovery of nitrogen dioxide related to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders around the globe by combining a near-real-time computer simulation with surface observations using substantial NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) resources.
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NCCS Announces a New, On-Premise GitLab Service!

12.04.2020
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) announces a new, easy-to-access, on-premise GitLab service for collaborative software development.

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