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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have established sites on the World Wide Web to which geoscientists may contribute their recollections and other unpublished material for the histories of Solar Variability and Climate Change; Black Smokers; Greenland Ice Drilling Projects; General Atmospheric Circulation Models; and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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Thanks to funding from the Sloan Foundation, geoscientists who have worked on a number of path breaking developments are now writing 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have established sites on the World Wide Web to which geoscientists have contributed their recollections and other unpublished material for the histories of geophysics. This site, Solar Variability and Climate Change, is divided into four subtopics: Solar Irradiance Measurements, Global Temperature Reconstructions, Isotope Proxies, Solar Reconstruction and Tree Ring and Other Proxies. The site is particularly devoted to the debate over a solar contribution to climatic change and includes online discussions, and full text documents in the history of geophysics.