2010 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

12.15.2010 - New Public Release of GEOS-5

A new release of GEOS-5, the Fortuna 2.2 version, is now publicly available through the NASA Open Source Agreement (NOSA). With this release, GMAO has updated our release mechanism, with access provided through an externally accessible Subversion Software Repository. Registration is required.

Please visit our GEOS-5 access page for the details.

10.19.2010 - New MERRA Atlas Available

The interactive MERRA Atlas provides a global visual perspective of selected variables from MERRA for each month, season and annual mean of the period 1979-present, as well as for the long term climate mean. It includes comparisons with other reanalyses and observations, and provides animation capabilities that facilitate browsing through the data.

Explore the MERRA Atlas.

06.23.2010 - USCLIVAR announces November workshop on renalyses and IESA

NOAA, NASA, NSF, and U.S. CLIVAR are sponsoring "Evaluation of Reanalyses - Developing an Integrated Earth System Analysis (IESA) Capability" to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on November 1-3, 2010.

One of the main objectives of this workshop is to begin understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the latest group of reanalysis and develop the needs for the next generation of reanalyses. As such, research and validation of MERRA data would be a valuable contribution to the workshop.
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06.11.2010 - GMAO Work Featured at Debut of Center for Climate Simulation

GEOS-5 simulations and the MERRA project were highlighted at the recent introduction of the newly-named NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
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03.15.2010 - MERRA Products Span Three Decades

The MERRA products now extend more than 30 years from January 1979 to the present. Stream 3 now continues as a near-real-time climate analysis.

Read more about MERRA streams and data availability.

02.4.2010 - GMAO Scientist Elected Fellow of the AGU

Dr. Randal Koster has been selected to become a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Two other scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Drs. Paul Newman and Michael Hesse, were also named AGU Fellows.
» NASA press release

02.4.2010 - GMAO plays role in GSFC participation at SC09 Supercomputing Conference

A record number of presentations and posters from Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate were part of The International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, which took place November 14.20, 2009 in Portland, OR (also known as SC09). GMAO scientists Steven Pawson and Eric Nielsen presented the poster "Modeling Interactions Between Ozone and Climate". Various presentations and visualizations by staff from other Goddard groups featured worked based on GMAO's GEOS-5 Model and MERRA reanalyses.
More about the SC09 Conference