Enhancing climate resilience at nasa centers: A collaboration between science and stewardship

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1351-1363

  Rosenzweig, Cynthia ^a   Horton, Radley M ^b   Bader, Daniel A ^b   Brown, Molly E ^c   DeYoung, Russell ^d   Dominguez, Olga ^e   Fellows, Merrilee ^e,f   Friedl, Lawrence ^e   Graham, William ^g   Hall, Carlton ^h   Higuchi, Sam ^e   Iraci, Laura ⁱ   Jedlovec, Gary ^j   Kaye, Jack ^e   Loewenstein, Max ⁱ   Mace, Thomas ^k   Milesi, Cristina ^i,l   Patzert, William ^f   Stackhouse, Paul W ^d   Toufectis, Kim ^e  

^a NASA Goddard Inst for Space Studies   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^h KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^j NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^l CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); NASA;

AMES RESEARCH CENTERS; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; ENERGY SPECIALISTS; INTERNATIONAL TEAM; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84910086311     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00169.1     Document Type: Article

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