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Solving the Global Change Puzzle A U.S. Strategy for Managing Data and Information. (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Information for Global Change
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... A policy will be needed that ensures unrestricted exchange of global change data across national boundaries. The principal scientific activities having data and information system requirements are as follows: 1.
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... A number of existing data sources and holdings are not obviously relevant to present high-priority global change science activities. Yet they are clearly a valuable resource with major potential value in the future.
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... Aspects of this activity affecting development of a global change data management system include: • Preservation of large volumes of material (e.g., sediment cores and ice cores)
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... The functions of the system include, but may not be limited to, the following: • Providing a programmatic focus for data management. A data management system component should focus the flow of information necessary to conduct global change research.
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... • Derived data products. The system must be able to integrate data within and across disciplines to create derived data products for use by the research community and policymakers.
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Key Terms

  • change data
  • derived data
  • data products
  • change studies
  • information management

  • time series
  • numerical model
  • active role
  • global data
  • ical data

  • series data
  • data product
  • observational data
  • global environment
  • edited data

  • integrate data
  • project data
  • advise data
  • final data
  • data exchange

  • related data
  • multiple data
  • global processes
  • analyzing global
  • conduct global

  • own data
  • change science
  • data collections
  • data recorded
  • data archaeology


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