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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2007. Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11934.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2007. Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11934.
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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 169

170 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

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The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) coordinates the efforts of 13 federal agencies to understand why climate is changing, to improve predictions about how it will change in the future, and to use that information to assess impacts on human systems and ecosystems and to better support decision making. Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program is the first review of the CCSP's progress since the program was established in 2002. It lays out a method for evaluating the CCSP, and uses that method to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the entire program and to identify areas where progress has not met expectations. The committee found that the program has made good progress in documenting and understanding temperature trends and related environmental changes on a global scale, as well as in understanding the influence of human activities on these observed changes. The ability to predict future climate changes also has improved, but efforts to understand the impacts of such changes on society and analyze mitigation and adaptation strategies are still relatively immature. The program also has not met expectations in supporting decision making, studying regional impacts, and communicating with a wider group of stakeholders.

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