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This book presents a comprehensive assessment of the atmospheric sciences and offers a vision for the future and a range of recommendations for federal authorities, the scientific community, and education administrators.
Interim Review of the Subsonic Assessment Project: Management, Science, and Goals
The 1997 Conference on the World Climate Research Programme to the Third Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded that the global capacity to observe the Earth's climate system is ...
The Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft Project: An Interim Review of Science and Progress
The results of NASA's Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft (AESA) project were summarized in a 1995 NASA assessment. The present report looks at that summary and at more recent work to evaluate the state of the science.
Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change
An overall increase in global-mean atmospheric temperatures is predicted to occur in response to human-induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping "greenhouse gases.
A Plan for a Research Program on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change
This book recommends the initiation of an "integrated" research program to study the role of aerosols in the predicted global climate change.
From Research to Operations in Weather Satellites and Numerical Weather Prediction: Crossing the Valley of Death
This workshop report examines the capability of the forecast system to efficiently transfer weather and climate research findings into improved operational forecast capabilities.
Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change: A Science Strategy
This book articulates the scientific issues that must be addressed to advance us efficiently toward that understanding and outlines the data collection and modeling needed.
Meeting U.S. Energy Resource Needs: The Energy Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
... our lives. Energy, which is a means for social ends rather than an end in itself, makes possible a high quality of life, characterized by prosperity and security. Given the role of energy in our economy, it is no surprise that ...
Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management: Summary of a Workshop
... (ASTM) D 1559: • Air Voids: 4 percent maximum • Asphalt Content: 6-9 percent • Marshall Stability: 750 pound minimum ... D4402), and elongation (ASTM D4885). Long-Term Testing Current tests that simulate the chemical and physical property ...
Building Ocean Science Partnerships: The United States and Mexico Working Together
... los recursos naturales dentro de sus plataformas continentales extendidas, es importante para ambos gobiernos el emprender prontamente estos estudios en las regiones relevantes del Golfo de México. Física del Mar Intra-Americano La ...
Mexico City's Water Supply: Improving the Outlook for Sustainability
... muestreo sistemático de los niveles de agua en el acuífero (Lesser-Illades et al., 1990). Desde entonces, el promedio anual de descenso del agua subterránea va de 0.1 a 1.5 metros por año en las diferentes zonas de la ZMVM. Los niveles ...
A Review of Decontamination and Decommissioning Technology Development Programs at the Department of Energy
... D&D worker/public safety. New technologies may be at a disadvantage compared to the baseline just because their use could require altering contractual requirements. Secondary waste produced by a new technology may lead to difficulties ...
Oceanography in the Next Decade: Building New Partnerships
... used to track subsurface floats and transmit information between ships and sensors at depth. Yet, sound is an underemployed tool ... measure precipitation in the open ocean. Direct measurement of precipitation is difficult to obtain and ...
Review of New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process
... examples of windshield survey form results for the four offered sites. The committee received little direct ... surveys were conducted over a two-week period. The ROPSI provides the windshield survey results only for those sites that ...
Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives--An Integrated Perspective
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel of the National Research Council (NRC) was tasked by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to provide a rapid and succinct assessment to relevant agencies on the general ...
... parte de las revistas mexicanas para que éstas sean incluidas en el SCI (Gibbs, 1995). En segundo lugar, cuando ... revista en el idioma inglés. Aunque la mayor parte de los escritos científicos están redactados en inglés, todos los ...
Mexico City's Water Supply: Improving the Outlook for Sustainability
... contabilidad (Bahl y Linn, 1992; Buenfil, 1993). Los beneficios de medir ... usuarios no tienen tubería en casa y usan muy poca agua. Usuarios Industriales La ... usuario de agua, comparada con otros sectores, sus instalaciones con ...
50 Years of Ocean Discovery: National Science Foundation 1950-2000
... HEALTH AND THE OCEANS (NRC, 1999) In 1997, the NRC's Governing Board approved a project proposed by the Ocean Studies Board (OSB), in cooperation with the Institute of Medicine's Division of Health Science ... products: What are the ...
Protecting Visibility in National Parks and Wilderness Areas
... diesel fuel burners and electric heaters to catalytic injection systems. Catalytic coatings also have several advantages in active systems and might make possible a simpler regeneration system. Catalytic Converters Due to reductions in ...
... roulette: The global transport of nonindigenous marine organisms. Science ... Strategy. National Science and Technology Council, Washington, D.C. ... Fisher, D.C., and M. Oppenheimer. 1991. Atmospheric nitrogen deposition and the ...
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... CHEMICAL WEATHERING ON GLACIAL TIME SCALES 53 sheet, with CO2 equivalent to ... (sheeting). Abrasion is the process by which glacially transported clasts ... primarily to marginal regions where abundant channelized surficial meltwater ...
Environmental Management Technology-Development Program at the Department of Energy: 1995 Review
... D&D programs by promoting the possible resale of recovered metals, the ... basis for this premise, which is the justification for the entire technology-development ... basic and applied research, exploratory and advanced development ...
Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales
... Brad Berger Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-3975 Kenneth Bergman NASA Headquarters (SED) 300 E Street SW, 5th Flr, Q26 Washington, DC 20546 Doris E. Bouadjemi (HA 466) Board on ...
Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere: Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and Its Fluid Envelopes
... estimation of geostrophic currents on spatial scales greater than ~400 km; the SST and SSI missions offer additional ... (WBC) are likewise shown. The SGG, SST, and SSI gravity-mission concepts will allow BASIN and ACC scales to be resolved ...
... CHANGE 92 interpreted as a global ice-volume signal or a temperature signal ... gold mine of information concerning glacioeustasy (e.g., Major and Matthews ... (5e). Submergence Curves for 12 KaBP to Present High-quality data are more ...
... RFGs? • Have changes in the concentrations of ozone been observed in the atmosphere and can these changes be attributed to the use of RFGs? This analysis proceeds from the information concerning the measurements of exhaust and ...
... benefits, and also enhance the credibility of floodplain development ... data sets yields a compact and smoothed representation of the flood ... some peaks are censored, the Expected Moments Algorithm is used as the generalization of the ...
... the American River, where billions of dollars of property are at risk due to flooding. Fitting a continuous mathematical distribution to data sets yields a compact and smoothed representation of the flood frequency distribution revealed by ...
The Future of Spatial Data and Society: Summary of a Workshop
Summary of a Workshop National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies ... GBF DIME • First computer-produced multicolor map in standard series (ECU ... GRID • Automated map scanner for soil maps (computer vision) • GIRAS ...
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