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NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) — GISTEMP (GISS Surface Temperature Analysis)

Name: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) — GISTEMP (GISS Surface Temperature Analysis)
Creator: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

Open · redistributedU.S. Government Work (public domain)Environment & Climate

NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4) ingest. Downloads global/hemispheric/zonal mean temperature anomaly tables. Source: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ (public domain, NASA) Output: data/clean_full/nasa_giss/giss_temp.parquet Series key format: GISS:{table}:{period_label} e.g.…

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

Temporal coverage

1880-01-01 – 2026-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: U.S. Government Work (public domain)
License URL: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Required attribution: Credit: NASA GISS/GISTEMP (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Provider terms: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

How to cite

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) — GISTEMP (GISS Surface Temperature Analysis). Retrieved from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download nasa_giss series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/nasa_giss
Update cadence: monthly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet: data/clean_full/nasa_giss/giss_temp.parquet (~28 KB). Schema: series_key (str, 'GISS:{table}:{period}'), obs_date (date32), value (float64).

Full description

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets