The Center for Climate Systems Research is a unit of Columbia University's Earth Institute and was established in 1994 for the purpose of enhancing the program of interdisciplinary Earth and Climate systems research both at Columbia and the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies. NASA/GISS is a division of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD; GISS is located in NYC just off Columbia's main campus.

The information on this site is divided into different research areas based on the work being done by the Center's researchers. Projects, reports and presentations can be found by going into the research areas directly or by reading through the list of all research projects hosted on the CCSR site. The Climate Resources page contains links to other climate news and climate science sites.