J. Angell
W. Wright
A. Basist
A. Clausen
D. Garrett
M. Gelman
J. Harrison
C. Long
D. Miskus
R. Nagatani
R. Tinker
J. Peterson
E. Dlugokencky
P. Jones
D. Robinson
G. Rosenhagen
D. Cullum
C. Folland
M. O'Donnell
D. Parker
G. Gruza
I. Cavalcanti
W. Brown
M. Crowe
R. Heim Jr.
This assessment would not have been possible without the cooperation and contributions from various scientists representing a cross-section of the NOAA climate community. We also wish to acknowledge the contributions from the scientists outside of NOAA in other federal laboratories, at universities, and at several sites around the world. All of these scientists are in the contributors list (Appendix) and we thank them for their timely and useful input. We are especially grateful to those international scientists who contributed their time and effort. We also would like to acknowledge the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET), which provided data that was used in the Brazilian precipitation figures. We also wish to thank R. Rosen for his early efforts and ideas on getting this document published in BAMS. In addition, we would like to thank T. Karl, N. Canfield, and an anonymous reviewer for their comments that helped to strengthen the article.
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