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Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (614)

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (614)

Hydrological Sciences Branch Vision

Water is critical to sustaining life on Earth, and helps to tie together the Earth's lands, oceans, and atmosphere into an integrated physical system. Here in the Hydrological Sciences Branch of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, we recognize the primary role of water in the Earth system, and seek a deeper insight into the science and physical principles underlying hydrology from local to global perspectives. The Hydrological Sciences Branch is dedicated to the understanding, quantification, and analysis of the different components of the hydrological cycle, with particular emphasis on land surface hydrological processes and their interaction with the atmosphere. We strive to conduct research which will advance our ability to understand and measure global hydrological processes, and to predict the response of global hydrology to anthropogenic and/or natural climate change.

Our Focus

Our focus within the Hydrological Sciences Branch is to develop remote sensing and modeling techniques which will improve our understanding of how the various components of the hydrological cycle interact over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales, thus producing important information about the current structure of global hydrology and how mankind is changing the hydrological environment.

 

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