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Figure 1: Cover of the CCSP Strategic Plan.

Figure 2: Major components needed to understand the climate system and climate change.

Figure 3: Climate change science and technology integration management structure.

Figures 4a, 4b, and 4c: Covers of three 2002 Ozone Assessment reports.

Figure 5: Satellite maps of total ozone over Antarctica on 24 September 2001, 2002, and 2003.

Figure 6: Aerial photo taken during Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) 2003 Field Measurement Campaign.

Figure 7: The High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform (HIAPER) aircraft.

Figures 8a and 8b: Arctic sea ice cover, 1979 and 2003.

Figure 9: Climate model simulations of the Earth’s temperature variations compared with observed changes.

Figure 10: Sea surface temperature in the northwest Pacific Ocean from (a) satellite data, (b) a 2x2-degree non-eddy-resolving simulation, (c) a 0.28-degree eddy-permitting simulation, and (d) a 0.1-degree eddy-resolving simulation.

Figure 11: Modeling the diurnal cycle of precipitation.

Figure 12: Water vapor measurement using Raman lidar.

Figure 13: The water cycle with respect to polar ice and sea level.

Figure 14: Comparison of Observed precipitation and North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) precipitation in January 1997.

Figure 15: The 2001 National Land Cover Database (NLCD).

Figure 16: Remotely sensed image of Amazon forest degradation.

Figure 17: Global land-cover estimates of percentage tree cover, herbaceous cover, and bare ground.

Figure 18: Radiative climate forcing by long-lived greenhouse gases.

Figure 19: Global change in terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP), 1982-1999.

Figure 20: Distribution of anthropogenic CO₂ in the global oceans through 1994.

Figure 21: The USDA Forest Service’s Carbon On-Line Estimation graphical analysis tool.

Figure 22: Change in ocean primary production.

Figure 23: Simulated increase in total aboveground carbon (kg/m²) due to fire suppression by the end of 2003.

Figure 24: Southwest area Geographic Area Coordination Center (GACC) fire risk outlook for 2003.

Figure 25: Earth Observation Summit (EOS) participants, U.S. Department of State, 31 July 2003.

Figure 26: Irrigation of beans in Morada Nova, Ceará, Brazil.