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1 Science for the Benefit of Society
Pages 9-12

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... 2For example, the report that led to NASA's Earth system science approach was Earth System Science, A Program for Global Change, report of the Earth System Sciences Committee, NASA, Washington, D.C., 1988. 3National Weather Service statistics presented in National Research Council, Satellite Observations of the Earth's Environment: Accelerating the Transition of Research to Operations, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pp.
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... See Kenneth Howe, "El Nino's Costly Crops," San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 1998. Changes in sea temperature and sea surface topography observed by satellites and ocean moorings are critical for forecasting the strength and timing of impending El Niño events.
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... A fundamental challenge for the coming decade is to ensure that established societal needs help guide scientific priorities more effectively, and that emerging scientific knowledge is actively applied to obtain societal benefits. New observations, analyses, better interpretive understanding, enhanced predictive models, broadened community participation, and improved means for information dissemination are all needed.
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... BOX 1.3 HUMAN HEALTH, EXPOSURE TO ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION, AND OZONE The Earth science and medical science communities have joined forces to understand and predict human morbidity rates resulting from the increasing incidence of skin cancer. Exposure to ultraviolet radiation, which damages DNA, is a risk factor for this cancer.Using satellite and other observations (Plate 2)
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