About GISS
Research at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) emphasizes a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man-made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one-time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal and annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.
GISS is located in New York City. The institute is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and is affiliated with Columbia University's Climate School and School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Recent Publications
Zhang, Y., S. He, A.N. LeGrande, J. Wang, B. Wee, N. Goodkin, J. Nusbaumer, M. Müller, S.C. Poh, T.T. Hien, and X. Wang, 2026: Quantifying the controls of spatiotemporal variations in precipitation isotopes across Southeast Asia. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 692, 120248, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120248.
Menking, K.M., D.M. Peteet, S.M. Cutler, L.D. Tipton, R. Cagnetta, B. Owczarek, and D.T. Rodbell, 2026: Late Pleistocene-Holocene pollen, macrofossils, and diatoms from eastern New York state's (USA) Rensselaer Plateau reveal multiple temperature and hydrological shifts. Quat. Res., early on-line, doi:10.1017/qua.2026.10096.
Hernandez-Deckers, D., T. Matsui, T. Iguchi, K. Brunner, E.C. Bruning, M. van Lier-Walqui, E.R. Mansell, T. Subba, C. Kuang, M.P. Jensen, and S.A. Braun, 2026: Aerosol-deep convection interaction based on joint cell-thermal tracking in Large Eddy Simulations during the TRACER campaign. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, no. 14, 10071-10099, doi:10.5194/acp-26-10071-2026.
Liu, L., and Z. Jin, 2026: Robustness of radiative kernel methods in reproducing Arctic outgoing longwave radiation variability. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 131, no. 14, e2025JD046213, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD046213.
