Front Matter -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 2 Changes to the Biology and Biochemistry of Ecosystems -- 3 Changes in the Climate System on Seasonal to Interannual Timescales -- 4 Changes in the Climate System on Decade-to-Century Timescales -- 5 Changes in the Chemistry of the Atmosphere -- 6 Paleoclimate Overview -- 7 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change* -- 8 Observations -- 9 Processing and Distributing Earth Observations and Information -- 10 Modeling -- 11 Findings and Recommendations -- ANNEX 1 A Short History of EOSDIS, 1986 to 1995 -- ANNEX 2 THE EOS Information Federation -- ANNEX 3 Producing Trustworthy Scientific Information in the EOS Information Federation -- Appendix A PUBLIC LAW 101-606 [S. 169] -- November 16, 1990 GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH ACT OF 1990 -- APPENDIX B Acronyms -- APPENDIX C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Index.