A Devastating Stall by Hurricane Dorian
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 15:13
When Dorian developed in the Atlantic Ocean during the last week of August 2019, steering winds pushed the storm forward at a respectable rate—about 10-15 miles (16-24 kilometers) per hour. So when...
NASA, NOAA Team Up In Effort To Study Impact Of Wild Fires O...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 11:44
NASA, NOAA Team Up In Effort To Study Impact Of Wild Fires On Air Quality
Historic Greenland Ice Melt Event Follows European Heatwave
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 10:44
The Greenland Ice Sheet experiences surface melting each summer. But in late July 2019, the ice sheet experienced one of the most extensive melt events on record. The event triggered above-freezing...
Air Pollutant Forecasts Using the NASA GEOS-CF Model: Global...
Monday, August 5, 2019 - 12:02
The May and June 2019 wildfires that occurred in Alberta, Canada led to increased smog, which resulted in air quality warnings issued in that region. Running at the at the NASA Center for Climate...
GMAO Research Brief: Saildrone Baja Field Campaign: A Compar...
Friday, July 26, 2019 - 09:49
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) researchers compared data from a saildrone, an unmanned surface vehicle carrying a comprehensive suite of instruments, to GEOS-FP and MERRA-2 near-...
Looking For Freshwater In All the Snowy Places
Monday, June 24, 2019 - 12:27
Empowered by the Discover Supercomputer at the NASAA Center for Climate Simulation and the Deepthought2 High-Performance Computing cluster at the University of Maryland, NASA-funded researchers are...
Impact of Satellite Sea Surface Salinity Observations on ENS...
Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 11:18
According to research run at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), assimilating satellite sea surface salinity from NASA’s Aquarius and SMAP satellite instruments improves the analyses of...
Choking on Saharan Dust
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 15:00
A new analysis supported by the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) suggests that exposure to mineral dust may be a bigger cause of premature death in Africa than previously thought.
Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture for Improved Atmosph...
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 14:57
Based on experiments spanning the summer of 2013, NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office finds that the use of soil moisture observations in the reanalysis resulted in regional...
A Scale-Aware Representation of Convection in the GEOS Model
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 13:02
Recently updated parameterizations estimating convection and shallow cumulus clouds, along with evolving development of the finite-volume cubed-sphere (FV3) dynamical core, have led to a unique scale...
