Overview of CCSP Budget
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Climate Change Science Program Budget by Agency
(Discretionary Budget Authority in $Millions)

Notes:

1 NOAA previously reported its climate research activities to CCSP, which were included under its Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) line office and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) line office starting in FY 2006. For FY 2008, NOAA made a decision to report activities for the NOAA climate strategic goal, as defined in the NOAA strategic plan (2005), to ensure consistent reporting and to provide the most accurate picture of its climate funding to date. The climate goal includes both research and operations funding under the following offices: OAR, NMFS, the National Weather Service, and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.


2 Past reports have erroneously presented all of NOAA’s CCSP funding in the Operations, Research, and Facilities (ORF) account. Climate-related activities have been and continue to be funded in both the ORF account and the Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction (PAC) account.


3 DOC FY 2008 and FY 2009 funding includes new measurement and standards-related activities that NIST will undertake to support CCSP.


4 The FY 2007 amount of $236 million reflects an estimate of climate expenditures. The recently calculated actual expenditures in FY 2007 were $265 million.


5 The majority of the FY 2009 DOE increase is due to increased climate modeling efforts. Examples include testing new convection and cloud parameterization schemes, research on effects of improved initialization of coupled model components on
decadal predictability of climate, and understanding the role of cryospheric processess in the climate system.


6 The NASA climate change funding levels in this table are consistent with amounts reported in the President’s proposed FY 2009 budget. This table does not reflect the revised accounting approach to be instituted in FY 2009 in response to FY 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act direction.


7 Operational space-based, surface, and in situ observing systems and programs are not included in the CCSP budget cross-cut, but contribute to achieving CCSP goals. Because DOD research activities are conducted for defense-related
missions, they are not included in the CCSP budget cross-cut; however, related DOD research contributes to CCSP goals.

* Any minor discrepancies within this table and between this table and others are due to rounding.

Abbreviations:

USDA: U.S. Department of Agriculture
DOC/NOAA: Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
DOD: Department of Defense
DOE: Department of Energy
HHS/NIH: Department of Health and Human Services/National Institutes of Health
DOI/USGS: Department of the Interior/U.S. Geological Survey
DOS: Department of State
DOT: Department of Transportation
USAID: United States Agency for International Development
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NSF: National Science Foundation
SI: Smithsonian Institution
USGCRP: U.S. Global Change Research Program
CCRI: U.S. Climate Change Research Initiative
CCSP: U.S. Climate Change Science Program