%0 Book %A National Research Council %T Implementing Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan %@ 978-0-309-08865-7 %D 2004 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10635/implementing-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10635/implementing-climate-and-global-change-research-a-review-of-the %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Earth Sciences %K Environment and Environmental Studies %P 108 %R doi:10.17226/10635 %X The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -- the Climate Change Research Initiative -- whose primary goal is to "measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources."