NOAA's FY 2002 Budget: Predicting Weather and Climate : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, May 9, 2001, Volume 4 |
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Page 55 - Administration (NOAA) is to describe and predict changes in the Earth's environment, and conserve and manage the Nation's coastal and marine resources to ensure sustainable economic opportunities.
Page 63 - ... Atlantic Bight, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Northeast Pacific, California, and the Gulf of Alaska. Education and outreach is a major component of NOAA's Ocean Exploration Initiative. NOAA will carry-out this program relying on partnerships with universities, the private sector, and other agencies.
Page 55 - The request for the People and Infrastructure cross-cutting initiative brings together the heart of what NOAA is and does. These are the underlying and interconnecting threads that hold NOAA and its programs together. Investments in NOAA's scientific and technical workforce and NOAA's facilities and equipment is essential to the agency carrying on it's mission into the 21st Century. reople and Infrastructure" is about investing in the future.
Page 86 - His previous positions include dean of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami and director of research at the Naval Research Laboratory.
Page 98 - I relating to studies and reports, there are authorized to be appropriated — (A) to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of...
Page 60 - El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). With agency and international partners, NOAA has been a leader in the assessments of climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the global carbon cycle. NOAA scientists have been leaders internationally in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It maintains national coordination through participation in the US Global Change Research Program. The agency-wide Climate Observations and Services activity represents a partnership that allows NOAA...
Page 235 - Earth-emitted thermal radiation in the 8 - 12 um window region, and a total channel for total radiation. Onboard calibration hardware includes a solar diffuser, a tungsten lamp system with a stability monitor, and a pair of blackbody sources. Cold space and internal calibration looks are performed during each normal Earth scan. Both CERES scanners operate continuously throughout the day and night portions of an orbit. In the crosstrack scan mode, calibration occurs biweekly. In the biaxial scan mode,...
Page 213 - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado had published a number of data sets made available through the US -Russia Bilateral Data Exchange Working Group VIII.
Page 139 - CRN is to provide future long-term (50-100 years) high quality homogeneous observations of surface air temperature and precipitation that can be coupled to past long-term observations for the detection and attribution of present and future climate change.