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PAPERBACK price:$42.75 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 Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape Forested Landscapes in Perspective:Prospects and Opportunities for Sustainable Management of America's Nonfederal Forests Other Related Titles Finding the Forest in the Trees: The Challenge of Combining Diverse Environmental Data (1995) Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA) 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 B: List of Abbreviations and Acronyms." Finding the Forest in the Trees: The Challenge of Combining Diverse Environmental Data. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1995. Please select a format: Page 128   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. B List of Abbreviations and Acronyms AISC Assessment and Information Services Center ANC Acid neutralizing capacity ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (Program) AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer BOREAS Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study CalCOFI California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center CD-ROM Compact Disk-Read Only Memory CEES Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences CIAD Climate Impact Assessment Division of NOAA's Assessment and Information Services Center CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center DBMS Data Base Management System DDRP Direct/Delayed Response Project DOE Department of Energy EPA Environmental Protection Agency EROS Earth Resources Observing System ERP Episodic Response Project ESD Environmental Sciences Division FCMA Fisheries Conservation and Management Act FIFE First ISLSCP Field Experiment FSDB Forest Science Data Bank GIS Geographic Information System Page 128 Front Matter (R1-R14) Executive Summary (1-11) 1 Introduction (12-17) 2 Impact Assessment Project for Drought Early Warning in the Sahel (18-29) 3 The National Acid Preciptation Assessment Program (30-45) 4 The H.J. Andrew Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Site (46-55) 5 The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (56-65) 6 The First ISLSCP Field Experiment (66-73) 7 The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation (74-80) 8 Interfacing Diverse Environmental Data-Issues and Recommendations (81-118) Appendixes (119-120) Appendix A: Case Study Evaluation Criteria (121-127) Appendix B: List of Abbreviations and Acronyms (128-129)

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Finding the Forest in the Trees: The Challenge of Combining Diverse Environmental Data B List of Abbreviations and Acronyms AISC Assessment and Information Services Center ANC Acid neutralizing capacity ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (Program) AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer BOREAS Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study CalCOFI California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center CD-ROM Compact Disk-Read Only Memory CEES Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences CIAD Climate Impact Assessment Division of NOAA's Assessment and Information Services Center CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center DBMS Data Base Management System DDRP Direct/Delayed Response Project DOE Department of Energy EPA Environmental Protection Agency EROS Earth Resources Observing System ERP Episodic Response Project ESD Environmental Sciences Division FCMA Fisheries Conservation and Management Act FIFE First ISLSCP Field Experiment FSDB Forest Science Data Bank GIS Geographic Information System

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Finding the Forest in the Trees: The Challenge of Combining Diverse Environmental Data GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Program ILWAS Integrated Lake-Watershed Acidification Study ISLSCP International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project LTER Long-Term Ecological Research (Program) MAGIC Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchments NADP Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate NAPAP National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NDVI Normalized Data Vegetation Index NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NRC National Research Council NSF National Science Foundation NSWS National Surface Water Survey ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy PC Personal computer QA Quality assurance QC Quality control USAID U.S. Agency for International Development USNC U.S. National Committee WAIS Wide Area Information Servers WMO World Meteorological Organization

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