CLIMATE AND AIR QUALITY RESEARCH.

SEC. 103. CLIMATE AND AIR QUALITY RESEARCH. (a) In General.— There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce, to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out its climate and air quality106 STAT. 4272 research activities under law, $100,718,000 for fiscal year 1992 and $103,877,000 for fiscal year 1993. Moneys appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be used to fund those activities relating to climate and air quality research specified by the Act of 1890, the Act of 1947, and any other law involving such activities. Such activities include interannual and seasonal climate research, long-term climate and air quality research, and the National Climate Program. (b) Climate and Global Change.— Of the sums authorized under subsection (a), $67,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1992 and 1993 are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of studying climate and global change. Such program shall augment and integrate existing programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and shall include global observations, monitoring, and data and information management relating to the study of changes in the Earth’s climatic system, fundamental research on critical oceanic and atmospheric processes, and climate prediction and diagnostics.