GEOS Sub-seasonal / Seasonal Project
Outreach
The NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and Goddard Media Studios provide amazing technology to create visualizations of the data we produce to help people understand the underlying phenomena. NASA published a special online feature for Earth Day “10 Things: Tech We Use to Study Earth” and one of the pieces was “Supercomputers for Science” showing a visualization of the 2015-2016 El Niño, made possible by combining data from NASA spacecraft and the computing power able to process vast amounts of data.
Here are stories and visualization projects that have been published by combining GMAO and NASA data, science and computing capabilities:
- Featured NASA/GSFC Science Highlight — "NASA study adds a pinch of salt to El Niño models" (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-study-adds-a-pinch-of-salt-to-el-ni-o-models)
- A 2019 Paper was subject of an EOS Editors Highlight "Salinity from Space Improves El Niño Forecasts"(https://eos.org/editor-highlights/salinity-from-space-improves-el-nino-forecasts)
- Tracking El Niño (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12718)
- El Niño: Daily Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Ocean Currents (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4544)
- A 3D Look at the 2015 El Niño (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12601)
- El Niño GMAO Daily Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly from 1997/1998 and 2015/2016 (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4433)
- NASA Sees A Different Kind of El Niño (NASA Sees A Different Kind of El Niño (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-sees-a-different-kind-of-el-nino)
- What’s Next After El Niño? (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12193)
- El Niño Evolution (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12242)
- Return to Normal in 2016, After Strong El Niño in 2015 (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12370)
- Evolution of Pacific Ocean Temperatures (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12199)
Team members are involved in collaborative efforts and a key part of our work involves communicating what we do with other scientists, students and interns inside and outside of our work environment. Interested public attend the yearly NASA Science Jamboree to show highlights of work through slide shows, animations, posters, and flyers. To share research to the public, we release “Science Snapshots” online. Examples are:
- Impact of Satellite Sea Surface Salinity Observations on ENSO Predictions (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/science_snapshots/2019/SSS_assim_ENSO.php)
- Daily Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Ocean Currents (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/science_snapshots/2017/2015-16_el_nino.php)
- Validation of Aquarius and SMAP Sea Surface Salinity in the Tropics (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/science_snapshots/2017/ss_salinity_validation.php)
- NASA/GMAO Pulls the Plug on La Niña (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/science_snapshots/no_la_nina_2017.php)
- GEOS-5 Seasonal El Niño Forecast for July 2015 (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/science_snapshots/5_seasonal_el_nino.php)
- A Neural-Network-Based Bias Correction Enhances the Value of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) Data (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/science_snapshots/SSS_Aquarius-Vernieres.php)
- Analysis and Prediction of the Upper Ocean using GEOS iODAS (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/science_snapshots/Seasonal_Kovach.php)
