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PAPERBACK price:$38.25 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change Planning Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan Other Related Titles Thinking Strategically: The Appropriate Use of Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program (2005) Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix E Abbreviations and Acronyms." Thinking Strategically: The Appropriate Use of Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2005. Please select a format: Page 149   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix E Abbreviations and Acronyms ACRIM Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor AIChE American Institute of Chemical Engineers CCSP Climate Change Science Program CFC chlorofluorocarbon DOE Department of Energy ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation EPA Environmental Protection Agency ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Satellite FY fiscal year GHG greenhouse gas GPRA Government Performance and Results Act HF Hickey-Frieden radiometer IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NRC National Research Council Page 149 Front Matter (R1-R12) Executive Summary (1-10) 1 Introduction (11-18) 2 Lessons Learned From Developing Metrics (19-46) 3 Principles for Developing Metrics (47-54) 4 Characterizing and Reducing Uncertainty (55-62) 5 Process of Developing Metrics (63-76) 6 Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program (77-86) 7 Conclusions and Next Steps (87-94) Appendix A Measuring Government Performance (95-102) Appendix B Case Study Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program (103-140) Appendix C Pool of Generic Metrics for Science and Technology (141-144) Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members (145-148) Appendix E Abbreviations and Acronyms (149-150)

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Thinking Strategically: The Appropriate Use of Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program Appendix E Abbreviations and Acronyms ACRIM Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor AIChE American Institute of Chemical Engineers CCSP Climate Change Science Program CFC chlorofluorocarbon DOE Department of Energy ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation EPA Environmental Protection Agency ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Satellite FY fiscal year GHG greenhouse gas GPRA Government Performance and Results Act HF Hickey-Frieden radiometer IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NRC National Research Council

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Thinking Strategically: The Appropriate Use of Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program NSF National Science Foundation OMB Office of Management and Budget PART Program Assessment Rating Tool PI principal investigator PMOD Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos R&D research and development RISA Regional Integrated Science and Assessments TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere TSI total solar irradiance USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program USGS U.S. Geological Survey UV ultraviolet VIRGO Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations WREN Washington Research Evaluation Network

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