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Thinking Strategically: The Appropriate Use of Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program
NSF
National Science Foundation
OMB
Office of Management and Budget
PART
Program Assessment Rating Tool
PI
principal investigator
PMOD
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos
R&D
research and development
RISA
Regional Integrated Science and Assessments
TAO
Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
TOGA
Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
TSI
total solar irradiance
USGCRP
U.S. Global Change Research Program
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
UV
ultraviolet
VIRGO
Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations