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Introduction
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... It complements other documents that describe specific program and implementation plans for a data and information management system to support global change research. The strategy described here is to build a national global change data and information management system on existing components, strengthened and supplemented to create a system that works to meet the needs of global change research.
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... It is beyond the scope of this report to list all the data types that will have to be managed in a national global change research program; there are thousands. However, the science priorities defined for the USGCRP give some idea of the wide range of data which must be managed: • Climate and hydrologic systems • Biogeochemical dynamics • Ecological systems and dynamics • Earth system history • Human interactions • Solid earth processes • Solar influences
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... • Ecological systems and population dynamics To improve the capacity to assess the effects of global change at regional scales. Specifically, to improve understanding of the responses of intensively managed and natural oceanic and terrestrial ecosystems to global change.
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... Contemporary and future researchers must be able to acquire and use these data in their analyses of global change phenomena. If the USGCRP is to be successful, a strong data management system must exist to support it .
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... dealt primarily with geophysical data, but its conclusion applies to all disciplines concerned with global change research: The quantity of geophysical data obtained -- has increased dramatically in the past few decades. Collected often at enormous expense, these data represent a national resource that must be managed carefully to ensure that they are preserved and available when needed.
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