Global Ecosystems Database, version 1.0: EPA Global Climate Research Program, NOAA/NGDC Global Change Database Program : documentation manual

"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environmental Research Laboratory - Corvallis, Oregon (ERL-C), established an Interagency Agreement with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in September 1990. This agreement began a five year cooperative effort to develop a geographic database for modeling terrestrial climatebiosphere interactions in support of EPA's Global Climate Research Program. Although performing specific tasks under contract to the US EPA, NGDC independently operates a Global Change Database Program (GCDP) as part of its NOAA mission. Considerable synergism therefore exists between the tasks performed for the EPA under the "Global Ecosystems Database Project," and other activities supporting NOAA Climate and Global Change Program"--Preface. John J. Kineman and Mark A. Ohrenschall (with contributions as noted). "EPA/600/R-29/194b." "Incorporated in: Global Change Database, volume 1." "June, 1992 (with corrections through September, 1992." "Produced in coopertion with the US EPA under Interagency Agreement (contract no. DW13934786-01-0)--titled "Co-developing data, tools, and methods for characterization and analysis of environmental system patterns to support EPA Global Climate Change Research and Modeling." Includes bibliographical references. 1992 NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) Library Public Domain 2286