TY  - BOOK
TI  - Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade
SN  - 9780309517805
AV  - GE150 .G56 1999 
U1  - 363.738/74/072073 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Academies Press
KW  - U.S. Global Change Research Program
KW  - Global environmental change
KW  - Climatic changes-Research-United States
KW  - Global warming-Research-United States
KW  - Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric-Research-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Matter -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 2 Changes to the Biology and Biochemistry of Ecosystems -- 3 Changes in the Climate System on Seasonal to Interannual Timescales -- 4 Changes in the Climate System on Decade-to-Century Timescales -- 5 Changes in the Chemistry of the Atmosphere -- 6 Paleoclimate Overview -- 7 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change* -- 8 Observations -- 9 Processing and Distributing Earth Observations and Information -- 10 Modeling -- 11 Findings and Recommendations -- ANNEX 1 A Short History of EOSDIS, 1986 to 1995 -- ANNEX 2 THE EOS Information Federation -- ANNEX 3 Producing Trustworthy Scientific Information in the EOS Information Federation -- Appendix A PUBLIC LAW 101-606 [S. 169] -- November 16, 1990 GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH ACT OF 1990 -- APPENDIX B Acronyms -- APPENDIX C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Index
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