{"id":55609,"date":"2021-05-24T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-471240"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:08:19","slug":"new-nasa-earth-system-observatory-to-help-address-mitigate-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/new-nasa-earth-system-observatory-to-help-address-mitigate-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Thermal image of Hurricane Maria in 2017.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png 5033w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=300,167 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=768,426 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=1024,569 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=1536,853 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=2048,1137 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=400,222 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=600,333 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=900,500 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=1200,666 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/maria_tmo_2017263_lrg.png?resize=2000,1111 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA\u2019s new Earth Systems Observatory will guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes \u2013 including helping to better understand Category 4 to 5 hurricanes such as Hurricane Maria, shown here in a 2017 thermal image captured by NASA\u2019s Terra  satellite. <strong>Credits: NASA<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>NASA will design a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes. With the Earth System Observatory, each satellite will be uniquely designed to complement the others, working in tandem to create a 3D, holistic view of Earth, from bedrock to atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen firsthand the impact of hurricanes made more intense and destructive by climate change, like Maria and Irma. The Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s response to climate change matches the magnitude of the threat: a whole of government, all hands-on-deck approach to meet this moment,\u201d said NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson. \u201cOver the past three decades, much of what we\u2019ve learned about the Earth\u2019s changing climate is built on NASA satellite observations and research. NASA\u2019s new Earth System Observatory will expand that work, providing the world with an unprecedented understanding of our Earth\u2019s climate system, arming us with next-generation data critical to mitigating climate change, and protecting our communities in the face of natural disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The observatory follows recommendations from the 2017 Earth Science Decadal Survey by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which lays out ambitious but critically necessary research and observation guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Areas of focus for the observatory include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Aerosols: Answering the critical question of how aerosols affect the global energy balance, a key source of uncertainty in predicting climate change.<\/li><li>Cloud, Convection, and Precipitation: Tackling the largest sources of uncertainty in future projections of climate change, air quality forecasting, and prediction of severe weather.<\/li><li>Mass Change: Providing drought assessment and forecasting, associated planning for water use for agriculture, as well as supporting natural hazard response.<\/li><li>Surface Biology and Geology: Understanding climate changes that impact food and agriculture, habitation, and natural resources, by answering open questions about the fluxes of carbon, water, nutrients, and energy within and between ecosystems and the atmosphere, the ocean, and the Earth.<\/li><li>Surface Deformation and Change: Quantifying models of sea-level and landscape change driven by climate change, hazard forecasts, and disaster impact assessments, including dynamics of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, glaciers, groundwater, and Earth\u2019s interior.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA is currently initiating the formulation phase for the observatory. Among its first integrated parts is NASA\u2019s partnership with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which brings together two different kinds of radar systems that can measure changes in Earth\u2019s surface less than a half-inch. This capability will be utilized in one of the observatory\u2019s first missions intended as a pathfinder, called NISAR (NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture radar). This mission will measure some of the planet\u2019s most complex processes such as ice-sheet collapse and natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides. NISAR can assist planners and decision makers with managing both hazards and natural resources in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about NASA\u2019s Earth science programs, visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/earth\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/earth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-end-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tylar Greene\/Karen Fox<br>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br>\n202-358-0030\/301-286-6284<br>\nTylar.j.greene@nasa.gov\/karen.fox@nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA will design a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes. 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