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The U.S. Global Change Research Program : an assessment of FY 1991 plans / National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Global Change.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Research--United States.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Research--Government policy--United States.
- Geodynamics--Research--United States.
- Geodynamics.
- Geodynamics--Research--Government policy--United States.
- Earth (Planet)--Research--Government policy--United States.
- Earth (Planet).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (125 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Global change research
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- The U.S. Global Change Research Program: An Assessment of FY 1991 Plans
- Copyright
- Contents
- PREFACE
- SUMMARY
- ASSESSMENT OF THE FY 1991 USGCRP
- THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE USGCRP
- PART I: THE U.S. GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM REPORT OF THE PANEL TO REVIEW THE FY 1991 U.S. GLOB...
- Introduction
- 1 Reducing Uncertainties
- PRINCIPAL RECOMMENDATIONS
- 2 Appropriate Balance
- BALANCE BETWEEN LONG-TERM AND SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
- BALANCE BETWEEN EXTRAMURAL AND AGENCY-BASED RESEARCH
- BALANCE BETWEEN "BIG" AND "LITTLE" SCIENCE
- BALANCE AMONG OBSERVATIONS, PROCESS STUDIES, AND MODELING
- BALANCE BETWEEN ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING PROGRAMS
- BALANCE AMONG SCIENCE PRIORITIES
- 3 Processes for Coordination and Review
- CONTINUED INVOLVEMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY IN PROGRAM PLANNING AND REVIEW
- MECHANISMS FOR SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT AND THE DELIVERY OF POLICY ADVICE
- INTERACTION AMONG PARTICIPATING AGENCIES
- 4 Other Issues
- INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH
- AVAILABILITY OF HUMAN RESOURCES
- DEFINITION OF ''CONTRIBUTING" PROGRAMS
- PART II: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF EOS REPORT OF THE PANEL TO REVIEW NASA'S EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM IN TH...
- 5 Environmental Parameters
- THE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR GLOBAL CHANGE
- EOS IN THE CONTEXT OF OTHER SPACE MISSIONS
- EOS AND THE USGCRP
- Summary Recommendations
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPECIFIC USGCRP SCIENCE PRIORITIES
- Climate and Hydrologic Systems
- Near-Term Plans
- EOS Plans
- Finding
- Biogeochemical Dynamics
- Findings
- Ecological Systems and Dynamics
- EOS Plans.
- Earth System History
- Human Interactions
- Solid Earth Processes
- Solar Influences
- 6 Simultaneity of Data Collection
- DEFINITIONS OF SIMULTANEITY
- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
- To Enhance Process Studies
- To Interpret Physical Measurements
- To Facilitate Data Management
- To Incorporate Engineering Considerations
- SPECIFIC ANALYSES FOR PARTICULAR SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Climate and Hydrological Systems: the Role of Clouds
- Biogeochemical Dynamics: Fluxes of Trace Species
- DOCUMENTATION
- 7 EOS Platforms
- ENGINEERING CONSIDERATIONS
- Launch Vehicles
- The Platform Systems
- CONTINUITY AND RELIABILITY
- COSTS
- PRECURSORS, SMALL MISSIONS, EARTH PROBES, AND OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS
- 8 The EOS Data and Information System
- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
- Evolution
- Diversity of Data and Information
- Data Diversity
- A Distributed System
- NASA'S DATA POLICY
- Landsat and Other Commercialized Datasets
- Preservation of Historic Datasets
- RESEARCH AND PROTYPING NEEDS
- Prototyping
- Pathfinder Datasets
- INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC ADVICE
- APPENDIXES
- Appendix A The Charge to the National Research Council
- Appendix B Comments on projects in the Science Priority Elements of the FY 1991 USGCRP
- Earth System History
- Earth System Modeling
- Data and Information Systems
- Documenting Global Change
- Appendix C Prototyping for EOSDIS
- Unique Challenges of Global Change Data Management
- Use of Data Archives as a Research Library
- Database Requirements for Scientific Metadata
- Timely Access to Large Datasets
- Missing and Bad Data
- Visual Browsing.
- Access by Many
- REFERENCES
- ACRONYMS.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786610212170
- 9781280212178
- 1280212179
- 9780309582797
- 0309582792
- 9780585154053
- 0585154058
- OCLC:
- 43477226
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