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.
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 |
Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction EXperiment
| 2024-05-17 | 2024-06-17 |
| 2024-07-22 | 2024-08-16 |
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 |
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 |
Arctic 2006
| 2006-03-18 | 2006-03-25 |
Tropical Rain Measuring Mission-Kwajalein Experiment
| 1999-07-23 | 1999-09-15 |
Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment
| 2009-07-13 | 2009-07-29 |
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 |
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
| 1987-08-17 | 1987-10-04 |
Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Terra 2000 Experiment
| 2000-02-24 | 2000-03-13 |
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Validation Experiment
| 2003-10-16 | 2003-11-01 |
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 |
Alaska-April95 Campaign
| 1995-03-31 | 1995-04-25 |
Arctic Radiation - IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment
| 2014-09-01 | 2014-10-03 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Marginal Ice Zone Ocean and Ice Observations and Processes Experiment
| 2013-07-09 | 2013-08-09 |
Hydrological Cycle in Mediterranean Experiment
| 2012-09-05 | 2012-11-06 |
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 |
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 |
Student Airborne Research Program
| 2025-06-15 | 2025-08-02 |
| 2025-06-22 | 2025-08-09 |
| 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 |
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 |
Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
| 1994-02-02 | 1994-09-19 |
| 1996-02-27 | 1996-10-21 |
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 |
Cold Land Processes Experiment
| 2002-02-17 | 2003-04-01 |
| 2006-12-02 | 2008-02-24 |
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 |
Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas
| 2023-06-12 | 2023-08-27 |
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment
| 2024-08-28 | 2024-09-30 |
Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study
| 2012-08-16 | 2013-10-13 |
| 2016-08-13 | 2017-11-17 |
Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
| 1993-03-05 | 1993-04-07 |