About Us

A Message From the GES DISC/DAAC Manager

Welcome to the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC), home of the GES Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). We are one of eight NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) DAACs that offer Earth science data, information, and services to research scientists, applications scientists, applications users, and students. The GES DISC is the home (archive) of Precipitation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics, and information, as well as data and information from other related disciplines. The GES DISC is located at Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland.

I hope, as you visit our Web pages, that you will find the information and data you are looking for. We are in the continuing process of enhancing data and information exploration and access by employing new technologies and tools that bring you closer to the data. For example:

• The Atmospheric Composition DISC (ACDISC) is the first of our new multi-sensor, multi-instrument, discipline-specific Web portals. So, for example, if you are looking for ozone data, all the ozone data generated by the various instruments can be found in one place.
• Have you tried Giovanni yet? This data analysis and visualization tool has been extremely popular in allowing DISC visitors to create time series plots, latitude/longitude graphics, and atmospheric depth plots (just to name a few) without having to download any data.
• Soon, all geophysical products will be migrated to online disk making data access retrieval much faster.

During your visit, you will also find cross links between the Earth science disciplines we have expertise in, the NASA remote sensing instruments we serve, the data parameters we provide, and the applications we specialize in. And you will find links to our collaborators, other NASA DAACs, and NASA Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, all of which can provide you additional Earth science data and information.

As always, OUR NUMBER ONE GOAL is to serve your Earth science data and information needs. I have been at the GES DISC since 1998, and this is, simply, what the GES DISC staff has always done! However, I believe we can always improve....