US Climate Collection Effort Sees First Publication

The US Climate Collection, an initiative by the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society, has published its first paper. The work, compiled by 149 authors, provides a roadmap for prioritizing future contributions to climate research. This effort aims to fill the void left by the terminated US National Climate Assessment, which was shut down by the Trump administration. The administration eliminated funding for the US Global Change Research Program and removed past reports from the website, forcing others to host copies. The US Climate Collection works differently from the US Global Change Research Program and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Instead of facilitating a coordinated report, the groups invite teams of researchers to publish peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, which are then added to a centralized resource. This allows researchers to continue their work despite the lack of a centralized report.