If policy makers are to make real progress, we must start meaning the same thing when we use the same words to describe climate change.
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Saturn’s Magnetosphere: A Dozen Years of Discovery
Twelve years of studying Saturn's magnetosphere has produced many compelling breakthroughs. Even more exciting, however, is what's left to learn.
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Chasing Down the Slow Solar Wind
The Sun's plasma blasts Earth’s magnetosphere at more than a million miles per hour. The fastest pours from holes in the corona, but until recently the source of the "slow" solar wind was a mystery.
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AOMIP and FAMOS for Enhancing Understanding of Arctic Changes
This community-based approach to modeling provides a unique forum for coordination, investigation, and synthesis.
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Controversy: A Crucial Ingredient for Scientific Progress
Heated debates are inevitable whenever different theories compete to explain the natural world, but scientific publishing facilitates a fast resolution.
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Space Weather Research and Forecasting Act Introduced to Senate
This bill is a welcome and proactive effort to align all federal agencies to act in the nation's best interest when it comes to forecasting and responding to extreme space weather events.
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They Got to “Ask-Me-Anything.” So, What Did They Want to Know?
On behalf of JGR: Oceans, I consented to a Reddit Science AMA. What did an anonymous public want to learn about oceanography and climate science? More importantly, what can we learn from them?
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Climate Scientists as Activists
The pursuit of global political solutions to climate change is not for the faint of heart—but it is a matter of civic responsibility.
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Your Science Is Your (Openly Shared) Data
Your data are no less important than your words.
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Four Perspectives on Order From Chaos
What makes thunderstorms clump, even to the point of singularity, over uniform oceans? Three recent papers in JAMES address this question, and a new Commentary ties them together.