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Welcome to the Modeling and Assimilation Data and Information Services Center (MDISC).


Atmospheric, land and ocean observations from satellites, aircrafts, ships, and other sources are grouped, modeled or assimilated into various time scales varying from hourly to multi decadal and processed for visualization and analysis for user community. Assimilated data products are available from the GES DISC.

The Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Data Assimilation System (DAS) is used to generate meteorological data assimilation products in support of NASA instrument teams, NASA's research programs, field campaigns, and as a contribution to U.S. weather and climate research. In addition to near-real-time products, the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) is using version 5 of the GEOS DAS (GEOS-5 DAS) for a retrospective atmospheric analysis for the satellite period (1979 - present).This product, the Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) is available online through the MDISC.

Data Availability:

The first and second stream have been completed and is available in its entirety for download. The latest data available for the third stream is 2012-12-31.

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Users can contact staff with questions on the data, data processing and science. Send questions to merra-questions@lists.nasa.gov.

More data will become available from the GES DISC in the future.

 


Latest News

Data partnerships and collaborations were the subject of several presentations by the NASA GES DISC at the AGU 2012 Fall Meeting.
Dec 21, 2012 - NASA GES DISC Presentations at AGU Fall Meeting 2012 Highlight Science Partners

Collaborations and data partnerships on hydrology, aerosols, precipitation, data preservation, and data assimilation described

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This map of NASA GES DISC user locations demonstrates the global usage of NASA's satellite remote-sensing data for earth science
Jun 14, 2012 - Spanning the globe to bring data users a wide variety of NASA earth science data

Researchers come to the NASA GES DISC from all corners of the online world

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SeaWiFS Deep Blue aerosol data allow research into dust transport over bright land areas, such as in the case of this December 15, 2008 dust storm in the western Sahara Desert.  (MODIS image from the NASA Earth Observatory)
Jun 12, 2012 - June 2012 issue of The Giovanni News available online

Newsletter includes articles on the life of Gregory Leptoukh, Aerostat, and agriculture in Jamaica

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Monthly time-series of aerosol optical depth at 550 nm over the southern hemisphere for land (red line) and ocean (black line).
Apr 16, 2012 - SeaWiFS Deep Blue (SWDB) aerosol monthly products now available in Giovanni

Giovanni now provides monthly averages for aerosols over land and ocean for full SeaWiFS mission

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New land surface diagnostics data in MERRA provide better estimates of hydrological conditions
Apr 13, 2012 - New MERRA Data Products Added to the MERRA Dataset

Ocean and land surface diagnostics improve model estimates for climate and weather variables

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