The GMAO Supports Field Campaigns During a Challenging Year
Despite an unpredictable 2020 for planning airborne and ship-based field campaigns, the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) was still able to support a number of missions that required specialized products.
GMAO Science Snapshots Look at Drought and Fires
Supported by NCCS resources, NASA’s GMAO calculated 1. the impact of regional U.S. drought on land and atmospheric carbon and 2. fire emissions in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics during 2020.
NASA-funded Network Tracks the Recent Rise and Fall of Ozone...
A short-lived resurgence in the emission of ozone depleting pollutants in eastern China will not significantly delay the recovery of Earth’s protective “sunscreen” layer, according to new research published Feb. 10 in Nature.
NASA Summer Intern Combines Data Science and Astronomy – wit...
Adam Friedman, a 2020 summer intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, analyzed a deluge of data on the brightness changes of over 70 million stars using the Discover supercomputer...
Shayna Skolnik: Visualizing Disaster Impacts with Virtual Re...
Through Navteca, Shayna Skolnik collaborates with NASA to demonstrate and investigate the potential of virtual reality and augmented reality to improve data accessibility and visualization for Earth science research and disaster response efforts.
'Sextuply-Eclipsing Sextuple Star System' Discover...
Data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) that astronomers analyzed on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer has revealed a sextuple star system less than 2,000 light years from Earth
What Will the Climate Be Like When Earth’s Next Supercontine...
A simulation study—run at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and presented at the 2020 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Long-Term Improvements of GEOS-FP Forecast Skill
A decade of continuous developments contributed to significant improvements in the forecast skills of the Global Earth Observing System...
NASA Model Reveals How Much COVID-related Pollution Levels D...
Using computer models to generate a COVID-free 2020 for comparison, NASA researchers found that since February, pandemic restrictions have reduced global nitrogen dioxide concentrations by nearly 20%
NASA Supercomputing Study Breaks Ground for Tree Mapping, Ca...
Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and laying the
