Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)

Disciplines: Atmospheric composition, atmospheric dynamics, global precipitation, solar irradiance
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Oklahoma tornado, May 20, 2013 - AIRS infrared brightness temperatures show very cold cloud tops in the storm (violet), indicating extremely strong convection.

NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) is located within NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It provides access to a wide range of global climate data, concentrated primarily in the areas of atmospheric composition, atmospheric dynamics, global precipitation, and solar irradiance. GES DISC supports data from many heritage and EOS missions including AquaAura, Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), and Earth Probe/Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometers (TOMS). GES DISC also provides data subsetting, exploration, visualization, and access services.

Global Climate Data

GES DISC data sets can be accessed through the online Data Holdings page which provides several search and order methods, including the keyword-based Mirador and Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP), as well as Earthdata Search.

Contact Information

Dr. David J. Meyer, DAAC Manager
Gary Alcott, DAAC Operations Manager
Jim Acker, User Services Lead
Mahabal Hegde, Chief Architect
Dr. Jennifer Wei, DAAC Lead Scientist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Code 610.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Website: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 

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