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Our changing planet: The FY 1993 US global-change research program. A supplement to the US President's Fiscal Year 1993 budget

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6955469
An improved predictive understanding of the integrated Earth system, including human interactions, will provide direct benefits by anticipating and planning for possible impacts on commerce, agriculture, energy, resource utilization, human safety, and environmental quality. The central goal of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is to help establish the scientific understanding and the basis for national and international policymaking related to natural and human-induced changes in the global Earth system. This will be accomplished through: (1) establishing an integrated, comprehensive, long-term program of documenting the Earth system on a global scale; (2) conducting a program of focused studies to improve understanding of the physical, geological, chemical, biological, and social processes that influence the Earth system processes; and (3) developing integrated conceptual and predictive Earth system models.
Research Organization:
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
6955469
Report Number(s):
N-92-31259; NASA-CR--190675; NAS--1.26:190675
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English