...have been launched. They all come under the loose, general rubric of the Global Change Program, whose goal is "to obtain a scientific understanding of the...entire earth system on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be...

...the International Council of Science Unions (ICSU), and recently the Intergovernmental Occanographic Commission (IOC). For the past couple of years, the...areas. The following projects are illustrative. • The US/French TOPEX/Poscidon project is intended to provide measurement capability to determine global...

...among them. This study should be guided by the goal stated earlier: THE GOAL OF EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE To obtain a scientific understanding of the entire Earth System on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be...

...Sciences Committee's recommendation for a "mission to planet Earth"; a research program which undertakes to obtain a scientific understanding of the entire earth system on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be...

...environment requires a new approach to Earth sciences. The scientific community believes that we need to obtain a scientific understanding of the entire Earth system on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be...

...environment requires a new approach to Earth sciences. The scientific community believes that we need to obtain a scientific understanding of the entire earth system on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be...

...human activities will affect the Earth's environment requires a new approach to Earth sciences. We need to obtain a scientific understanding of the entire Earth system on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be...

...environment requires a new approach to Earth sci ences. The scientific community believes that we need to obtain a scientific understanding of the entire Earth system on a global scale by descri bing how its component parts and their interactions have evol ved . how they f unct i on , and...

...the effect which man can and has worked upon his environment, the goal of the mission to planet earth is to obtain a scientific understanding of the entire earth system on a global scale through an understanding of how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function,...

...problems of global climate change? Answer. The first ESSC report was well received in NOAA. Obtaining a scientific understanding of the entire Earth System on a global scale is an ambitious goal, but one which NOAA shares. While a second more detailed report is due toward...