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Appendix B: U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Pages 153-158

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... The act called for the development of a research program "to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change," and it guided federally supported global change research for the next decade. In 2001, President Bush launched the CCRI to investigate uncertainties and set new research priorities in climate change science.
From page 154...
... Understand the sensitivity and adaptability of different natural and managed ecosystems and human systems to climate and related global changes 5. Explore the uses and identify the limits of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability and change Research elements: Atmospheric composition, climate variability and change, water cycle, land-use/land-cover change, carbon cycle, ecosystems, and human contributions and responses to environmental change Crosscutting issues: Decision support resources development, communications, modeling strategy, observing and monitoring the climate system, data management, and international cooperation The CCSP research elements are consistent with but broader than those of the predecessor U.S.
From page 155...
... TABLE B.1 Evolution of Research Elements, USGCRP and CCSP USGCRP CCSP 1989-1996 1997-1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004-2008 APPENDIX B Climate and Climate Climate system Climate system Climate system Climate system Climate hydrologic change variability systems over and change decades to centuries Seasonal to interannual climate variability Global water Global water Global water Global water Global water cycle cycle cycle cycle cycle Biogeochemical Global carbon Global carbon Global carbon Global dynamics cycle cycle cycle carbon cycle Ecological Changes in Biology and Biology and Biology and Ecosystems systems and land cover biogeochemistry biogeochemistry biogeochemistry dynamics and in of ecosystems of ecosystems of ecosystems terrestrial and marine ecosystems 155
From page 156...
... TABLE B.1 Continued USGCRP CCSP 156 1989-1996 1997-1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004-2008 Land use/land Land cover change use/land cover change Human Human Human Human Human Human Human interactions contributions dimensions of dimensions of dimensions of dimensions of contributions and global change global change global change global change and responses responses to to global environmental change change Solar Changes in Composition and Composition and Composition Composition Atmospheric influences ozone, chemistry of the chemistry of the and chemistry and chemistry composition ultraviolet atmosphere atmosphere of the of the radiation, atmosphere atmosphere and atmospheric chemistry Earth system Paleoenvironment Paleoenvironment history and paleoclimate and paleoclimate Solid Earth processes SOURCES: CCSP (2003, Strategic Plan; 1989–2008, Our Changing Planet)
From page 157...
... CCSP, 2003, Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Climate Change Science Program and Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, D.C., 202 pp.


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