Blue Carbon Ecosystems
Coastal vegetated habitats such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass meadows that capture and store substantial carbon in biomass and sediments.
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Space Weather Forecasting
The observation and prediction of solar and geospace disturbances that can affect satellites, navigation, radio and power systems.
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Permafrost Carbon Feedback
The climate interaction in which thaw exposes frozen organic matter to decomposition and releases additional greenhouse gases.
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Synthetic Aperture Radar
Active microwave imaging that combines echoes collected along a moving platform to achieve fine spatial resolution.
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Glacier Dynamics
The deformation, sliding and mass exchange that govern how land ice flows from accumulation zones toward its margins.
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Wildfire Dynamics
The coupled combustion, atmosphere, fuel and terrain processes that govern how landscape fires ignite and spread.
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Ecosystem Biodiversity
Variation within species, among species and across ecosystems, together with the interactions that sustain ecological function.
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Climate Feedback Loops
Processes that amplify or reduce an initial change in Earth's climate system.
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Photosynthesis
The biological conversion of light energy into chemical energy, coupled to carbon fixation in plants, algae and some bacteria.
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