Wednesday, May 8, 2024

NASA Selects Three Groups Working On Climate Studies

NASA says it has selected four groups working on missions to help study the climate and climate change, including three companies based in Southern California. According to NASA, the proposals for concept studies of missions to help the agency better understand Earth science in such areas as greenhouse gases, the ozone layer, ocean surface currents, and changes in ice and glaciers around the world. The studies include The Ocean Dynamics and Surface Exchange with the Atmosphere (ODYSEA) -- studying ocean surface currents and winds -- led by Sarah Gille at the University of California in San Diego; Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) -- studying the three dimensional structure of terrestrial ecosystems -- and is led by Helen Amanda Fricker at the University of California in San Diego; and the third is The Carbon Investigation (Carbon-I)--studying greenhouse gass--led by Christian Frankenberg at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. NASA did not say how much it is providing to those groups for their research efforts