Overview
Climate Variability and Change Focus Area (CVC) studies global climate and sea level to understand their change on seasonal to decadal timescales. Home to NASA’s research programs in Physical Oceanography, Cryospheric Sciences, and Modeling and Data Assimilation, the CVC Focus Area fosters interdisciplinary science to understand the role of oceans and ice in the Earth system, and supports advanced modeling capabilities to improve our understanding of the physical processes that control the Earth system and enable prediction.
Marginal Ice Zone Ocean and Ice Observations and Processes Experiment
| 2013-07-09 | 2013-08-09 |
Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites
| 2008-06-26 | 2008-07-14 |
| 2008-03-31 | 2008-04-21 |
| 2008-06-18 | 2008-06-24 |
Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment
| 2012-05-23 | 2012-10-30 |
| 2013-02-05 | 2013-11-25 |
| 2015-02-10 | 2015-11-12 |
| 2014-02-13 | 2014-11-09 |
Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment
| 2008-09-20 | 2008-10-19 |
| 2012-06-06 | 2012-07-19 |
| 2015-08-02 | 2015-08-18 |
| 2016-05-25 | 2016-08-16 |
| 2022-04-02 | 2022-08-09 |
Arctic Mechanisms of Interaction Between the Surface and Atmosphere
| 2008-08-01 | 2008-09-12 |
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Validation Experiment
| 2003-10-16 | 2003-11-01 |
Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere - Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment
| 1992-11-01 | 1993-02-28 |
First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment
| 1991-11-13 | 1991-12-07 |
| 1992-06-01 | 1992-06-25 |
| 1998-04-08 | 1998-07-30 |
| 1986-10-13 | 1986-11-02 |
| 1987-06-30 | 1987-07-19 |
Tropical Rain Measuring Mission-Kwajalein Experiment
| 1999-07-23 | 1999-09-15 |
Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment
| 2009-07-13 | 2009-07-29 |
Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
| 1993-03-05 | 1993-04-07 |
Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study
| 2012-08-16 | 2013-10-13 |
| 2016-08-13 | 2017-11-17 |
Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) High-Frequency Time Series
| 2022-02-24 | 2022-09-27 |
Atmospheric Tomography Mission
| 2016-07-29 | 2016-08-23 |
| 2018-04-24 | 2018-05-21 |
| 2017-09-28 | 2017-10-27 |
| 2017-01-26 | 2017-02-21 |
Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment
| 2018-07-02 | 2018-09-01 |
| 2022-07-05 | 2022-08-26 |
| 2017-04-27 | 2017-11-04 |
| 2019-06-30 | 2019-09-17 |
| 2023-07-05 | 2023-08-21 |
| 2024-08-12 | 2024-08-26 |
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
| 1987-08-17 | 1987-10-04 |
Observations of Aerosols above Clouds and their Interactions
| 2016-08-19 | 2016-10-27 |
| 2017-08-01 | 2017-09-04 |
| 2018-09-21 | 2018-10-27 |
Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Terra 2000 Experiment
| 2000-02-24 | 2000-03-13 |
Oceans Melting Greenland
| 2021-04-21 | 2021-04-29 |
| 2017-08-22 | 2017-10-23 |
| 2018-08-02 | 2018-09-11 |
| 2019-08-12 | 2019-09-05 |
| 2015-07-25 | 2015-09-21 |
| 2020-03-27 | 2020-04-15 |
| 2020-08-16 | 2020-09-12 |
| 2021-08-11 | 2021-09-16 |
| 2017-03-11 | 2017-03-22 |
| 2018-03-06 | 2018-03-20 |
| 2019-03-05 | 2019-04-16 |
| 2016-09-07 | 2016-10-10 |
| 2016-03-20 | 2016-05-28 |
| 2016-07-05 | 2016-08-16 |
Polar Aura Validation Experiment
| 2005-01-13 | 2005-02-09 |
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge
| 2022-08-11 | 2022-10-05 |
Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar
| 2010-12-01 | 2010-12-12 |
| 2011-03-22 | 2011-04-05 |
| 2012-02-22 | 2012-04-27 |
| 2012-09-14 | 2012-09-28 |
| 2013-07-01 | 2013-07-03 |
| 2013-09-18 | 2013-09-27 |
| 2014-07-10 | 2014-08-02 |
Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction EXperiment
| 2024-05-24 | 2024-06-17 |
| 2024-07-22 | 2024-08-16 |
Arctic Radiation - IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment
| 2014-09-01 | 2014-10-03 |
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment
| 2024-08-28 | 2024-09-30 |
Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas
| 2023-06-12 | 2023-08-27 |
Soil Moisture Experiment
| 2005-06-10 | 2005-07-08 |
| 2004-07-20 | 2004-08-26 |
| 2002-06-15 | 2002-07-23 |
| 2003-06-16 | 2003-07-21 |
Operation IceBridge
| 2009-10-16 | 2010-02-16 |
| 2009-03-31 | 2009-06-02 |
| 2009-08-19 | 2009-09-06 |
| 2010-03-22 | 2010-05-26 |
| 2010-08-21 | 2010-08-29 |
| 2010-10-20 | 2011-02-26 |
| 2011-03-16 | 2011-05-30 |
| 2011-08-16 | 2011-09-12 |
| 2011-10-07 | 2011-12-23 |
| 2012-03-14 | 2012-05-24 |
| 2012-08-14 | 2012-08-30 |
| 2012-10-12 | 2013-01-26 |
| 2013-03-20 | 2013-05-28 |
| 2013-06-17 | 2013-08-30 |
| 2013-10-31 | 2013-11-14 |
| 2013-11-19 | 2013-11-28 |
| 2014-03-12 | 2014-05-24 |
| 2014-08-19 | 2014-08-23 |
| 2014-10-16 | 2014-11-22 |
| 2015-03-19 | 2015-05-22 |
| 2015-08-20 | 2015-08-29 |
| 2015-09-22 | 2015-10-29 |
| 2015-09-23 | 2015-10-22 |
| 2016-04-19 | 2016-05-28 |
| 2016-07-13 | 2016-09-15 |
| 2016-10-14 | 2016-11-18 |
| 2017-03-09 | 2017-05-31 |
| 2017-07-17 | 2017-09-20 |
| 2017-10-29 | 2017-12-16 |
| 2018-03-22 | 2018-05-30 |
| 2018-08-17 | 2018-08-29 |
| 2018-10-10 | 2018-11-16 |
| 2019-04-03 | 2019-05-16 |
| 2019-09-04 | 2019-09-28 |
| 2019-10-23 | 2019-11-20 |
| 2020-05-21 | 2020-06-13 |
| 2021-05-02 | 2021-05-13 |
Hydrological Cycle in Mediterranean Experiment
| 2012-09-05 | 2012-11-06 |
Student Airborne Research Program
| 2009-07-12 | 2009-08-13 |
| 2010-06-20 | 2010-07-30 |
| 2011-06-19 | 2011-07-29 |
| 2012-06-17 | 2012-08-10 |
| 2013-06-09 | 2013-08-02 |
| 2014-06-15 | 2014-08-08 |
| 2015-06-14 | 2015-08-07 |
| 2016-06-12 | 2016-08-05 |
| 2017-06-18 | 2017-08-11 |
| 2018-06-18 | 2018-08-10 |
| 2019-06-16 | 2019-08-09 |
| 2021-12-03 | 2021-12-10 |
| 2022-06-12 | 2022-08-05 |
| 2023-06-11 | 2023-08-04 |
| 2023-06-18 | 2023-08-11 |
| 2024-06-16 | 2024-08-09 |
| 2024-06-23 | 2024-08-16 |
Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
| 1994-02-02 | 1994-09-19 |
| 1996-02-27 | 1996-10-21 |
Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment
| 2013-01-19 | 2013-03-02 |
| 2013-12-20 | 2014-03-14 |
| 2011-10-20 | 2011-11-10 |
| 2015-02-26 | 2015-03-14 |
Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America
| 2017-01-31 | 2017-03-10 |
| 2017-10-03 | 2017-11-13 |
| 2019-06-17 | 2019-07-27 |
| 2016-07-18 | 2016-08-29 |
| 2018-04-12 | 2018-05-20 |
Cold Land Processes Experiment
| 2002-02-17 | 2003-04-01 |
| 2006-12-02 | 2008-02-24 |