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PAPERBACK price:$38.25 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles America's Climate Choices Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change Other Related Titles Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results (2007) Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007. Please select a format: Page 169   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 169 Front Matter (R1-R8) Summary (1-6) 1 Introduction (7-14) Part I Methods and Results (15-16) 2 Process for Evaluating Progress: Task 1a (17-34) 3 Preliminary Assessment of CCSP Progress (35-46) Part I References (47-48) Part II Detailed Supporting Analysis (49-50) 4 Progress Toward the Research Elements (51-98) 5 Progress Toward the Cross-Cutting Issues (99-120) Part II References (121-136) Appendixes (137-138) Appendix A: Status of CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products (139-142) Appendix B: Supplemental Information on Human Contributions and Responses (143-150) Appendix C: Matrix to Evaluate CCSP Progress (151-158) Appendix D: Workshop Participants (159-160) Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members (161-168) Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations (169-170)

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Appendix F Acronyms and Abbreviations CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation CCRI Climate Change Research Initiative CCSP Climate Change Science Program CERES Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System CFCs chlorofluorocarbons CHDGC Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability CMEP Climate Model Evaluation Project CPT climate process team DMUU Decision Making Under Uncertainty DOE Department of Energy ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation EOS Earth Observing System GCOS Global Climate Observing System GEOSS Global Earth Observing System of Systems GOES-R Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Series R GPM Global Precipitation Measurement GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Hydros Hydrosphere State 1

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10 APPENDIX F IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IRI International Research Institute for Climate and Society IWG interagency working group LTER Long-Term Ecological Research MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MODIS Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer NACP North American Carbon Program NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIH National Institutes of Health NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System NPP NPOESS Preparatory Project NRC National Research Council NSF National Science Foundation OCCC Ocean Carbon and Climate Change program PCMDI Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison RISA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor SNOTEL Snowpack Telemetry SORCE Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program USGS U.S. Geological Survey UV ultraviolet VIIRS Visible Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite