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6.5 NASA's Earth Science and Applications Programs: Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request and Issues
6.5 NASA's Earth Science and Applications Programs: Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request and Issues
Pages 148-156
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Addressing these societal challenges requires that we confront key scientific questions related to ice sheets and sea level change, large-scale and persistent shifts in precipitation and water availability, transcontinental air pollution, shifts in eco
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The report outlines near-term actions meant to stem the tide of capability deterioration and continue critical data records, as well as forward-looking recommendations to establish a balanced Earth observation program designed to directly address the most urgent societal challenges facing our nation and the world (see Fig. 3 for an example of how nine of our recommended missions support in a synergistic way one of the societal benefit areas -- extreme event warnings)
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Five years from now is well into the period covered by the Decadal Survey, and the Survey has recommended a balanced set of 15 high priority missions for NASA. This set of 15 missions was derived from over 100 proposed missions, so a great deal of priority setting has already taken place by the community.
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I am encouraged that NASA is planning workshops to further analyze the decadal survey recommended missions, but to develop the survey ideas further will require substantial investments. Implementing the survey results will require modest increments in the NASA Earth Science budget, restoring the budget back to where it was in real dollars in the early part of this decade.
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's Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future. Our most basic objective is to simultaneously protect life and property, promote economic vitality, and enable environmental stewardship.
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Further, this analysis identified contributions to the observing and modeling components of the investment in climate research. In 1992, NASA contributions were approximately 70 percent of the total USGCRP budget, with more than a third of the total USGCRP budget focused on climate and hydrology observations provided by NASA (about 400 million dollars of a total budget of 1,185 million)
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For climate studies, the list provided in the National Academies Earth Science Decadal Survey is a base set. It is prioritized in time, taking into account the existing instrumentation and international partners, but each element is critical and the list is not sufficient to solve all of the major uncertainties in forecasting the future.
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5. What are your perspectives, as an individual researcher, on international collaborations in the Earth sciences, and what value would international collaborations offer in advancing the recommended missions in the decadal survey?
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International partnerships should only be fostered where synergy between instrument capabilities and the science requirements is strong, where there is free and easy access to data, and where there is transparency in the process of analyzing data such that analysis algorithms are freely available. The Decadal Survey includes many examples where priorities were altered based on knowledge of missions proposed by international partners.
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