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The goal of the Aerosol-Climate Interactions Program (ACIP) is elucidation
of the role of tropospheric aerosols in climate.
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The mission of the Agriculture and Rangeland Global Change program is to
develop and provide adaptation, mitigation, and management strategies to
the individual farm, ranch, and rural community, and to natural resource
decision-makers to allow them to derive optimal benefit from the positive
aspects of global change and deal effectively with the detrimental
effects.
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Homepage for the Applications Research Program. This program serves as a
bridge between scientific insights and societal needs through targeted
research, institutional capacity development and local applications of
knowledge. The goal is to reduce vulnerability to natural disasters and
improve quality of life. In addition, this program is a mechanism to
provide feedback to the research community regarding decision-making
information needs.
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USDA has brought together agricultural and forestry leaders from industry,
academia, state governments, and the federal government to assess the
methyl bromide problem, formulate priorities, and implement research. The
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) leads this process and has increased
its own research on finding alternatives to methyl bromide by redirecting
funds from other programs and undertaking new research projects funded by
additional Congressional appropriations.
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The Atmospheric Chemistry program seeks to understand the chemical and
radiative processes associated with trace chemicals in the atmosphere.
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The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program is the largest global change
research program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). ARM
scientists focus on obtaining field measurements and developing models to
better understand the processes that control solar and thermal infrared
radiative transfer in the atmosphere (especially in clouds) and at the
earth's surface.
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The Climate and Carbon Research (CCR) activity in the Center for
Computational Science at ORNL is a scientific research center that focuses
on the computational aspects of how the global climate and carbon systems
interact with natural and anthropogenic processes. The goal of CCS-CCR is
to serve as a world-class climate and carbon research center and be a
focal point for the computational climate and carbon simulation community.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) Climate Change Prediction Program (CCPP) is
the current phase in the evolution of DOE's long-standing climate modeling
and simulation research agenda. The CCPP is focused on developing, testing
and applying coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (GCMs)
for climate simulation and prediction that stay at the leading edge of
scientific knowledge and computational technology.
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The Office of Biological and Environmental Research manages the
Department's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program. Program
descriptions can be found at this site.
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The Economic Research Service (ERS) is the main source of economic
information and research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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EPA's Global Change Research Program is an assessment-oriented program
with primary emphasis on understanding the potential consequences of
climate variability and change on human health, ecosystems, and
socioeconomic systems in the United States. The website is designed to
provide a portal through which scientists, resource managers, and the
public can access information about the program and partners.
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Home page for the Smithsonian Institute's Global Change research program.
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This document outlines NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Research Strategy
for 2000-2010.
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NOAA's portal to their climate data, information, data centers and
laboratories.
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The Office of Global Programs (OGP) leads the NOAA Climate and Global
Change Program. NOAA has the primary responsibility within the Federal
Government to routinely provide climate forecasts and products to the
Nation. OGP assists in this capacity by sponsoring focused scientific
research, within approximately eleven research elements, aimed at
understanding climate variability and its predictability. Through studies
in these areas, researchers coordinate activities that jointly contribute
to improved predictions and assessments of climate variability over a
continuum of timescales from season to season, year to year, and over the
course of a decade and beyond.
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NSF global change research programs support research and related
activities that advance fundamental understanding of dynamic physical,
biological, and socioeconomic systems as well as interactions among those
systems.
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The mission of PER is to improve the scientific basis for predicting or
detecting effects of environmental changes associated with energy
production (i.e., global and regional changes in atmospheric composition
and related climatic changes) on terrestrial ecosystems and their
component organisms and processes.
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An
outline of the objectives and elements of the USDA Forest Service Global
Change Research Program.
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Home page of the USDA Forest Service Northern Global Change Research
Program.
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Home page of the Southern Global Change Program.
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The USDA Global Change Program Office (GCPO) operates within the Office of
the Chief Economist and functions as the Department-wide coordinator of
agriculture, rural and forestry-related global change program and policy
issues facing USDA. The Office ensures that USDA is a source of objective,
analytical assessments of the effects of climate change and proposed
mitigation strategies. The Office also serves as USDA's focal point for
climate change issues and is responsible for coordinating activities with
other Federal agencies, interacting with the legislative branch on climate
change issues affecting agriculture and forestry, and representing USDA on
U.S. delegations to international climate change discussions.
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Web site for the USDA's Soil Carbon Studies.
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The USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program is a program of the US
Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service (CSREES). The program was initiated in 1992, through a
grant to Colorado State University, to provide information on the
geographical distribution and temporal trends of UVB (ultraviolet -B)
radiation in the United States. This information is critical to the
assessment of the potential impacts of increasing ultraviolet radiation
levels on agricultural crops and forests.
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The U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program (CCSP) is an interagency partnership
that draws on the expertise and ongoing research in seven agencies, with
the objective of developing a whole-system predictive capability for the
global carbon system. The ultimate goal is to provide integrated estimates
of carbon sources and sinks, with a focus in FY 2000 on implementing
activities to determine the magnitude, location, and cause of the North
American terrestrial sink. The program will develop the understanding of
how sinks might be enhanced and how they might change in the future,
information that is of critical importance to potential decisions to
manage the carbon system.
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