Welcome to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration research institute located in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan in New York, NY. A subdivision of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Sciences Directorate, GISS is primarily engaged in studies of global change.

GISS information

• Introduction to GISS
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• Datasets and code
• Educational programs
• Research groups
• Computer systems and operations
• Personnel
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• NASA homepage
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Connections to the outside world

• Exploring the Web
  • Background
  • Getting around
  • Software
• Weather images
  • Purdue WXP weather processor
  • Michigan State USG current weather maps and movies
  • Michigan State USG interactive weather browser
• Nearby research institutions and universities
  • Columbia University
  • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
  • Other nearby sites
• Useful places on the Net
  • National Science Foundation
    • Geosciences Directorate
  • National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
    • Climate Diagnostics Center
    • National Climate Data Center
    • National Geophysical Data Center
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • USGS Atmospheric Science index
  • GSFC Global Change Master Directory
  • Stanford: Yahoo science index
  • Stanford: Yahoo general index
  • FedWorld Information Network
• New York City
  • GISS Guide to Manhattan on the Web
  • New York City Virtual Tourist
  • Weather forecast

Attention Mosaic for X-Windows users!

If your copy of Mosaic still opens the NCSA Mosaic homepage whenever you launch the program, you need to add a line to your .Xdefaults file. To automatically open to the GISS homepage, the line you want to add is:

Mosaic*homeDocument: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/