Climate Research and Development Program Word Cloud 2023
By Climate Research and Development Program
January 2023 (approx.)
Detailed Description
Word cloud of science keywords from the USGS Climate Research and Development Program. Larger words were submitted more often and from multiple projects whereas smaller words were submitted less frequently. Words in the word cloud, listed in order from largest (used most often) to smallest (used least often) and the number of times each were submitted are below:
Submitted 17 times
- climate change
Submitted 15 times
- paleoclimate
Submitted 13 times
- drought
Submitted 12 times
- modeling
Submitted 11 times
- land use & land cover change
Submitted 9 times
- carbon
- coastal ecosystems
- ecosystems
- fire
- soils
Submitted 8 times
- hazards & disturbances
- wetlands
- water
Submitted 7 times
- climate
- forests
Submitted 6 times
- methods
- rivers & streams
- natural resource management
Submitted 5 times
- abrupt warming
- greenhouse gases
- sea-level rise
Submitted 4 times
- glaciers & land ice
- Holocene
- hydroclimate
- mountain ecosystems
- permafrost
- snowpack
- Arctic
- oceans
- watersheds
Submitted 3 times
- biogeochemistry
- climate proxies
- drylands
- floods
- humans & urban ecosystems
- lakes
- minerology & sedimentology
- nitrogen
- productivity
- sediment cores
- stocks & fluxes
- thresholds
Submitted 2 times
- benthic ecosystems
- biodiversity
- biological soil crusts
- carbon quality
- charcoal
- dissolved organic matter
- ecosystem services
- ecotones
- groundwater
- micropaleontology
- nature-based solutions
- nutrients
- organic carbon
- pollen
- remote sensing
- tree-rings
- vegetation
Sources/Usage
Public Domain.