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Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade (1999)
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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Research Pathways for the Next Decade

CLIMAP

Climate Mapping, Analysis, and Prediction Group

CLIVAR

Program for Climate Variability and Predictability

CMIP

Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

COADS

Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set

CODMAC

Committee on Data Management and Computation

COFUR

costs of filling user requests

COHMAP

Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project

COWL

cold oceans and warm land

CRREL*

DOD Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

CSREES*

USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

CTD

conductivity-temperature-depth

CZCS

coastal zone color scanner

DAAC

Data Acquisition and Archive Center

DIC

dissolved inorganic carbon

DIVERSITAS

IUBS-SCOPE-UNESCO Programme on Biodiversity

DMS

dimethyl sulfide

DMSP

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DOC

dissolved organic carbon

DOD*

U.S. Department of Defense

DOE*

U.S. Department of Energy

DOI*

U.S. Department of the Interior

ECMWF

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

ENSO

El Niño-Southern Oscillation

EOS

Earth Observing System

EOSDIS

EOS Data and Information System

EPA*

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ERS*

USDA Economic Research Service

ESA

European Space Agency

ES*

NASA Earth Science

ESSC

Earth System Sciences Committee

EUMETSAT

European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

EVE

Equilibrium Vegetation Ecology model

FANGIO

Feedback Analysis of GCMs and in Observations

FIFE

First ISLSCP Field Experiment

FS*

USDA Forest Service

FUNCEME

Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos (Ceará's Foundation for Meteorology and Hydrological Resources)

GAIM

Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modelling Program

GCIP

Global Energy Water-Cycle Experiment Continental-Scale International Project

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