This action plan articulates the most significant ecosystem problems for the Great Lakes, and describes efforts to address them. The five areas are toxic substances, invasive species, health and pollution, wildlife and habitat preservation and restoration, and finally a component that covers accountability and evaluation.

The regional-scale Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is being used by a DOE Earth System Modeling (ESM) project titled “Improving the Characterization of Clouds, Aerosols and the Cryosphere in Climate Models” to evaluate the performance of atmospheric process modules that treat aerosols and aerosol radiative forcing in the Arctic. We are using a regional-scale modeling framework for three reasons: (1) It is easier to produce a useful comparison to observations with a high resolution model; (2) We can compare the behavior of the CAM parameterization suite with some of the more complex and computationally expensive parameterizations used in WRF; (3) we can explore the behavior of this parameterization suite at high resolution. Climate models like the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5) being used within the Community Earth System Model (CESM) will not likely be run at mesoscale spatial resolutions (10–20 km) until 5–10 years from now. The performance of the current suite of physics modules in CAM5 at such resolutions is not known, and current computing resources do not permit high-resolution global simulations to be performed routinely. We are taking advantage of two tools recently developed under PNNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) projects for this activity. …

The global and annual mean aerosol direct and indirect effects, relative to 1850 conditions, estimated from CESM simulations are 0.02 W m-2 and -0.39 W m-2, respectively, for emissions in year 2100 under the IPCC RCP8.5 scenario. The indirect effect is much smaller than that for 2000 emissions because of much smaller SO2 emissions in 2100; the direct effects are small due to compensation between warming by black carbon and cooling by sulfate.

The global and annual mean aerosol direct and indirect effects estimated from Community Earth System Model (CESM) simulations are -0.06 W m-2 and -1.39 W m-2, respectively.

This report presents the Department of Defense's business goals, objectives, measures, and initiatives for the 2011 fiscal year.

The second part of the legislative appropriations request from the Texas Department of Insurance for fiscal years 2010 and 2011.

Memorandum containing replacement pages for the 2011 fiscal year combined financial report for the University of North Texas System, with a summary of the changes at the start.

Report on the strategic plan for the Texas Animal Health Commission describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2011 through 2015.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Animal Health Commission describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2009 through 2013.

This report outlines the goals of the Texas Emission Reduction Plan in order to ensure that the air in the state is safe to breathe and meets minimum federal standards established under the Federal Clean Air Act, to develop multi-pollutant approaches to solving the state's environmental problems, and to adequately fund research and development that will make the state a leader in new technologies that can solve the state's environmental problems while creating new business and industry in the state.

Tables outlining the Texas Department of Justice plan to reduce a total of 5% ($294.3 million) of the budget for fiscal years 2010-2011. Each cell describes an alternate funding source or change in activities with the amount of money that would be reduced in state funding.