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A novel experiment is currently underway in the geophysical sciences. Thanks to funding from the Sloan Foundation, geoscientists who have worked on a number of pathbreaking developments now have an opportunity to document and write their own history. The AGU, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Institute of Physics have established sites on the World Wide Web to which geoscientists may contribute their recollections and other unpublished material for the histories of Solar Variability and Climate Change; Black Smokers; Greenland Ice Drilling Projects; General Atmospheric Circulation Models; and the GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment.
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The American Geophysical Union established this site to detail the scientific study of changes in global climate, especially temperature, roughly between 1960 and 1990. It is particularly useful in comprehending the topic of global warming and how scientists have assessed this trend over time. The site provides an annotated historical essay on the scientific understanding of climate change and its relationship to solar radiation. In addition there are documents, including interviews with geoscientists and photographs, relating to experiments on solar irradiance, flare and spots, as well as tree rings, isotopes and other historical measures of Earth's temperature. The site asks for further contributions, biographical recollections, and materials such as photographs from those who have participated in the study of climate change and solar variability.