NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program

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Apr 2003

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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #13938

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NASA's Earth Science Enterprise has the lead role in fulfilling the first element of the Agency's three-part mission statement, "To Understand and Protect Our Home Planet". We accomplish this by developing a scientific understanding of the Earth system and its response to natural and human-induced changes to enable improved prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards. NASA brings to global change research the ability to view the Earth from space, as well as the capability to define and manage and end-to-end program of research to answer large scale Earth science questions. Our view from space allows us to view local and regional changes in their global context. The Earth Observing System of satellites begins monitoring variability and trends in global change parameters of known importance. Complimenting EOS, NASA' Earth System Science Pathfinder satellites explore Earth system processes that have yet to be measured globally. These processes, such as aerosol properties and vertical distribution and carbon sources and sinks, represent areas of great uncertainty in climate change. They also tend to require advanced remote sensing technologies, such as radars, lidars, and advanced spectrometers. NASA's ESSP program solicits the latest and best ideas from the science community to meet these challenges. NASA coordinates its plans with its international space partners to assure our collective space programs effectively and efficiently meet the requirements of internationally important global change research programs.

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