Climate Variability and Change
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Climate Variability and Change

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USGCRP:

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs

• Aerosols
• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Climate and Societal Interactions
  • Applications of Climate Forecasts
    • Africa
    • Climate Variability and Human Health
    • Latin America
    • South East Asia
    • South Pacific
  • Climate Information Project
  • Human Dimensions
  • Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments
• Climate Change Data and Detection
• Climate Dynamics and Experimental Prediction
• Climate Observations
• Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR): 
  • CLIVAR-Atlantic
  • CLIVAR-Pacific
  • Pan-American Climate Studies (PACS)
• GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP)
•  Global Carbon Cycle
• Paleoclimatology

Department of Energy, Biological and Environmental Research Program

• Atmospheric Science

• Climate Prediction
• Ecosystem Research
• Global Change Education Program.
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
• Integrated Assessment
• National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC)
• Oceans
• Terrestrial Carbon. Includes AmeriFlux and FACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment):.
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement -- Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (ARM-UAV) program

US Geological Survey, Global Change Research Program.  Current research activities:

• Carbon Cycle Research
• Earth Surface Dynamics
• Hydroclimatology
• Impacts on Biological Resources
• Land Characterization and Satellite Data Management
• Rio Puerco Basin Studies

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Earth Science Enterprise

• Missions (see NASA's Earth Science Missions page for additional details)
  • Earth Observing System (EOS) @ Goddard Space Flight Center (Atmospheric Physics and Land Surface).  List of  Projects.
  • Earth Observing System (EOS) @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Oceanography).   List of  Projects.
  • Earth Observing System (EOS) @ Langley Research Center (Atmospheric Chemistry).  List of  Projects 
  • Earth Probes @ the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  List of  Projects
  • Earth Explorers @ Goddard Space Flight Center.   List of   Projects 
  • Earth Science Technology Program (ESTP)
  • Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)
  • Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES)
  • Commercial Remote Sensing
  • EO-1/EO-2 New Millennium Missions
    List of  Projects
  • New Millennium Program (NMP)

• Projects
  • ACRIMSAT (ACRIM=Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor)
  • ALI
  • CHAMP
  • CloudSat. CloudSat is a multi-satellite, multi -sensor experiment.
  • Commercial Remote Sensing Program (CRSP)
  • EOS Aura Project. EOS Aura is the third in a series of Earth Observing Satellites to study atmospheric chemistry.
  • EOS Aqua Project. Project centered around the Earth Observing Satellite Aqua.
  • Earth Observing System Data and Information Systme (EOSDIS)
  • Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
  • Earth System Science Pathfinder Project (ESSP)
  • Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)
  • Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
  • Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
  • JASON-1. Satellite carrying a radar altimeter to measure ocean topography,
  • Landsat 7. A satellite used to acquire remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface and surrounding coastal regions.
  • New Millennium Program. Created by NASA "to develop revolutionary technical advances and space flight concepts that will help mankind push back the final frontier."
  • Optical Transient Detector (OTD)
  • Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spacebourne Observations Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des Aerosols (PICASSO-CENA)
  • Polar Observational Environmental Satellites (POES)
  • SAGE-III
  • SEASTAR/SeaWiFS. The SeaStar spacecraft, developed Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) that provides data on global ocean bio-optical properties.
  • SeaWinds. SeaWinds is a weather radar that measures oceanic winds.
  • SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)
  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
  • Terra. The first Earth Observing System satellite "designed for a comprehensive check up of planet Earth."
  • Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
  • TOPEX/Poseidon. Project centered around satellite that measures global sea level. It is a cooperative effort originating with NASA's TOPEX (an Ocean TOPography EXperiment) and with the Poseidon oceanography mission launched by the French space agency CNES.
  • Triana. Centered around the Triana spacecraft, this project seeks to "help scientists construct more accurate models of Earth's climate and answering a key Earth Science question-- how solar radiation affects climate."
  • Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
  • Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT). "Quick recovery" mission to fill the gap created by the loss of data from the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), when the satellite it was flying on lost power in June 1997. Launched in 1999, the QuikSCAT carries a "specialized microwave radar that measures near-surface wind speed and direction under all weather and cloud conditions over Earth's oceans."
  • Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
  • University Earth System Science (UnESS)
  • Vegetation Canopy Lidar Mission (VCL)

National Science Foundation, Global Change Research Program

• Antarctic Ecosystems
• Arctic System Science
• Climate Modeling, Analysis, & Prediction
• Climate Variability & Predictaibility (CLIVAR).
• See also US CLIVAR site and International CLIVAR site.
• Coastal Long-Term Ecological Research (cLTER/LMER)
• Earth System History
• Ecological Diversity
• Ecological Rates of Change
• GEODATA
• Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics.
• Global Tropospheric Chemistry Program
• Greenhouse Gas Dynamics
• Human Dimensions of Global Change
• Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). See also International JGOFS and US JGOFS sites.
• Methods and Models for Integrated Assessment
• Ocean Observation, Data Assimilation, and Modeling
• Polar Ozone Depletion/UV Radiation Effects
• Regional Research Institutes. The three regional institutes for global change research -- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, European Network for Research on Global Change and Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research -- were created to facilitate the integration of global change research programs on a regional basis.
• Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiments (RIDGE). See also RIDGE site.
• Sea Level Changes
• Solar Influences
• Water & Energy: Atmospheric-Vegetative-Earth Interactions
• World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). See also US WOCE site.

Smithsonian Institution

• National Air and Space Museum.  Monitoring Natural Environmental Change
  • Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
• National Museum of Natural History.   Biological Responses.  Long-Term Environmental Change
• National Zoological Park.   Biological Responses
  • Conservation & Research Center's Spatial Analysis Laboratory
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.  
  • Far-Infrared Spectroscopy Group
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. 
  • Research in Global Change
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 
  • Paleoecology and Panama Paleontology Project (PPP)
  • Plant Physiology & CO₂
    • Free Air Carbon Enhancement Project (FACE)
  • Tropical Marine Ecology
  • Forest Ecology

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