News
Nov 20, 2009
The new issue of "The Giovanni News" newsletter features articles about the GLDAS and MAIRS interfaces, precipitation data, and fires in the Los Angeles basin witnessed firsthand while viewed from space
Nov 18, 2009
Hurricane Ida transformed to a tropical storm, then an extratropical low, then a powerful "nor'easter" that assaulted the Mid-Atlantic coast; GES DISC resources provide views and information for this storm, complemented by data from the NASA QuikSCAT satellite
Nov 17, 2009
Subset service augments TRMM download conversion capability; netCDF download also added for TRMM 3B42 daily data
Nov 06, 2009
Use of the NASA GES DISC Giovanni system increasingly seen in peer-reviewed papers; Giovanni also used for scientific meeting presentations, reports, and diverse applications
Oct 27, 2009
Science team plans for the next generation satellite to monitor global precipitation patterns
Oct 05, 2009
While the Atlantic hurricane season has been relatively quiet, the western Pacific has experienced several destructive super typhoons in August and September - and the season is not over yet
Sep 10, 2009
Giovanni users are invited to participate in the annual data center user survey, conducted by CFI group on behalf of NASA
Sep 09, 2009
In order to provide access to additional data-related services, the GES DISC
data navigation interface (WHOM) has been enhanced and merged into Mirador, the
new GES DISC combined data navigation and search interface. Please visit the
"Projects" section in Mirador and update your bookmarks.
Aug 10, 2009
GES DISC hurricane tools used to track the movement of the storm and intense rains on Taiwan
Jul 23, 2009
The new version of a popular data set useful for climate and meteorological studies can be examined with online visualization and analysis tools.
Jul 17, 2009
NASA data and services will help support the examination of human-monsoon interactions in Asia.
Jun 19, 2009
Spring rainfall is heavy in 2009, particularly in the city of Washington, D.C.
Apr 13, 2009
With a web browser and few mouse clicks, users can produce visualizations for all 8 years and 4.5 TB of Merged IR Brightness Temperature data and generate False Color IR imagery and animation without downloading any software and data.
Feb 22, 2009
The Hurricane Data Analysis Tool provided an impressive view of a tornado-spawning storm event over Oklahoma and Texas on February 10, 2009.
Dec 10, 2008
The GES DISC has created data tools and data systems that are useful for scientists...
Dec 04, 2008
Thirty years of meteorological data; 6 years of AIRS data; a new system for 8 years of IR data from geostationary satellites; 11 years of ocean color data over the Chesapeake Bay--the GES DISC will describe its tools and data for studying climate at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco.
Nov 03, 2008
Scientists, students, and applications users seeking on-the-fly visualizations of hurricane-related satellite and model data can now access and visualize the NCEP/CPC 4-km Global Merged IR Brightness Temperature data set through the GES DISC Hurricane Data Analysis tool.
Sep 24, 2008
Several TRMM data products have been added to the new TOVAS instances as part of the transitional phase between the predecessor TOVAS and the current Giovanni system.
Sep 09, 2008
As of 2:00 pm EST September 9th, Hurricane Ike has a forward speed to 12 mph heading in the West/Northwest direction with a wind speed of 75 mph and is located at approximately 22.7N, 83.4W with a central pressure of 970 mb. Hurricane Ike headed to Cuba as a category 3 storm initially and has weakened to a Category 1 storm as it moved over land. ...
Sep 03, 2008
Animations were created using the TRMM 3B42RT data of the Accumulated Rainfall parameter using the GES DISC TRMM Online Visualization and Analysis System (TOVAS) ...