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1 Introduction
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... Earth observations collective experience, and input from the Earth science from space have provided the information needed to verify community to compile an extensive list of accomplishments and complete our understanding of how ozone chemistry in resulting from Earth observations from space. Using its the stratosphere controls the infamous polar ozone hole; how expert judgment, the committee chose a subsample of the ocean currents, temperatures, and atmospheric processes are major accomplishments that are compelling and illustracoupled to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation; how snow cover tive to convey the extent to which satellite observations affects water cycle dynamics; and how numerous global and have revolutionized the way people view, understand, and regional factors influence sea level change.
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... The committee considered • recipients of the quarterly newsletter of the National as major accomplishments only scientific advances that Academies' Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, resulted in a new discovery, transformative science, provand ing or disproving an important theory, opening new major • members of relevant scientific e-mail distribution research venues, or providing significant societal benefits. lists.


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