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.
Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) High-Frequency Time Series
| 2022-02-24 | 2022-09-27 |
Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study
| 2012-08-16 | 2013-10-13 |
| 2016-08-13 | 2017-11-17 |
Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere - Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment
| 1992-11-01 | 1993-02-28 |
Hydrological Cycle in Mediterranean Experiment
| 2012-09-05 | 2012-11-06 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Marginal Ice Zone Ocean and Ice Observations and Processes Experiment
| 2013-07-09 | 2013-08-09 |
Arctic Radiation - IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment
| 2014-09-01 | 2014-10-03 |
Terra/Aqua Experiment
| 2001-03-14 | 2001-04-04 |
| 2002-11-20 | 2002-12-13 |
Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
| 1993-03-05 | 1993-04-07 |
Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Terra 2000 Experiment
| 2000-02-24 | 2000-03-13 |
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment
| 2024-08-28 | 2024-09-30 |
Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment
| 2009-07-13 | 2009-07-29 |
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 |
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 |
Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction EXperiment
| 2024-05-17 | 2024-06-17 |
| 2024-07-22 | 2024-08-16 |
Alaska-April95 Campaign
| 1995-03-31 | 1995-04-25 |
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 |
ICESat-2 Summer Sea Ice Cal/Val
| 2022-07-11 | 2022-07-26 |
California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change
| 2010-05-01 | 2010-07-22 |
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 |
Polar Aura Validation Experiment
| 2005-01-13 | 2005-02-09 |
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 |
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 |
Tropical Rain Measuring Mission-Kwajalein Experiment
| 1999-07-23 | 1999-09-15 |
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 |
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 |
Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas
| 2023-06-12 | 2023-08-27 |
Cold Land Processes Experiment
| 2002-02-17 | 2003-04-01 |
| 2006-12-02 | 2008-02-24 |
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge
| 2022-08-11 | 2022-10-05 |
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 |
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
| 1987-08-17 | 1987-10-04 |
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 Mechanisms of Interaction Between the Surface and Atmosphere
| 2008-08-01 | 2008-09-12 |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Sea Ice Product Validation
| 2003-03-13 | 2003-03-22 |
| 2006-03-18 | 2006-03-25 |
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Validation Experiment
| 2003-10-16 | 2003-11-01 |
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 |