Planning Climate and Global Change Research A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan (2003) / Chapter Skim
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This new program must complement the research of the last decade, which focused on building an understanding of the Earth system, with research to explicitly support decision making. To do so, it will be necessary to continue research into the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of climate and associated global changes, and to add research that will enable decision makers to understand the potential impacts ahead and make choices among possible response strategies.
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Since its creation in 1990, the GCRP has made substantial investments in the following general areas of climate change and global change research: measurements of the physical, chemical, and biological processes responsible for changes in the Earth system; documentation of global change; studies of past changes in the Earth system; prediction and simulation of global environmental processes; and research initiatives to understand the nature of and interactions among global change processes. The GCRP reports numerous scientific insights and accomplishments of the program in the annual publication of its report to Congress titled Our Changing Planet (e.g., GCRP, 2002, 20034.
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The CCSP is intended to be a single interagency committee responsible for the entire range of science projects sponsored by the two programs.2 The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere was named director of the CCSP. The interagency CCSP retains the responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, including its provisions for annual reporting of findings and short-term plans, scientific reviews by the National Academies, and periodic publication of a 10-year strategic plan for the program.
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The discussion draft of the plan, Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP, 2002) , was released on the CCSP website ( |
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