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KISS studies convene experts from Caltech, JPL, and the wider space community to develop ideas and concepts that can revolutionize space science and engineering.

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  • Crucial Carbon Stores and Fluxes in Desert Environments
    Earth

    Crucial Carbon Stores and Fluxes in Desert Environments

    Understanding carbon stores and fluxes in desert environments is crucial to reach conservation, regeneration, and carbon goals locally and globally. In desert landscapes, carbon is primarily stored as inorganic carbon in the so-called caliche layer and…

  • Forging Community Consensus for an Integrated GHG and Winds Program
    Earth

    Forging Community Consensus for an Integrated GHG and Winds Program

    To respond to climate change effectively, we need better information about how planetary ecosystems are responding to changes in the environment through carbon-climate feedbacks. There are several dedicated greenhouse gas missions, current and planned, focussed on…

  • Managing Soil Organic Carbon for Climate Change Mitigation – Multiscale Quantification Through Remote Sensing, AI and Biogeochemical Models
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    Managing Soil Organic Carbon for Climate Change Mitigation – Multiscale Quantification Through Remote Sensing, AI and Biogeochemical Models

    Mitigating climate change by halting (and then reversing) the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is a critical challenge which must be addressed by all sectors of the global economy, including how we manage land.…

  • Developing a Continuity Framework for Satellite Observations of Climate
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    Developing a Continuity Framework for Satellite Observations of Climate

    Space-based observations of Earth have given us a view of the wonder and complexity of the planet. They also provide society with situational awareness of local-to-global environmental conditions and predictive guidance of near-term weather and related…

  • Covid-19: Identfiying Unique Opportunities for Earth System Science
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    Covid-19: Identfiying Unique Opportunities for Earth System Science

    The goal of this study is to quickly assemble an interdisciplinary team of scientists, researchers and engineers to begin addressing the following questions: How will the response to the COVID-19 impact on the climate system be…

  • Real Time Detection and Tracking of Fires that Matter
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    Real Time Detection and Tracking of Fires that Matter

    In this workshop, we build on findings from the Moore Foundation Fire Immediate Response Workshop and do a deep dive to investigate innovation for detecting and tracking costly fires that affect human life, infrastructure, and the…

  • Sensing Forest Water Dynamics from Space: Towards Predicting the Earth System Response to Droughts
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    Sensing Forest Water Dynamics from Space: Towards Predicting the Earth System Response to Droughts

    In the last two decades, severe droughts and extreme climate events have caused widespread tree mortality across many forest biomes globally, causing profound effects on the function of ecosystems and their services in terms of water…

  • Unlocking a New Era in Biodiversity Science: Linking Integrated Space Based and In-Situ Observations
    Earth

    Unlocking a New Era in Biodiversity Science: Linking Integrated Space Based and In-Situ Observations

    Biodiversity loss is a major threat to ecosystem health and to Earth’s life support systems, with human activities causing rapid and widespread loss and shifts in distribution. These changes will have accelerating consequences for human well-being…

  • Next-Generation Approach for Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks: Space-Based Integration of OCS, CO2, and SIF
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    Next-Generation Approach for Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks: Space-Based Integration of OCS, CO2, and SIF

    This study follows on the heels of recent breakthroughs in measurement capability, global budget information, and model development. The first global satellite maps for Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS) from TES and MIPAS showed strong similarities with spatial…