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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