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Atmosphere-Ocean Volume 60, 2022 - Issue 3-4: Earth’s Climate and Weather: Dominant Variability and Disastrous Extremes / Le climat et la météo de la Terre: Variabilité dominante et extrêmes désastreux
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Current Challenges in Climate and Weather Research and Future Directions

Jialin Lin1 Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Taotao Qian1 Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Howard B. Bluestein2 School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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Peter Ditlevsen3 Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, DenmarkORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-7732
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Hai Lin4 Environment and Climate Change Canada, Montreal, Canada
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Tatsuya Seiki5 Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Tokyo, JapanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5084-6600
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Eigo Tochimoto6 National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tokyo, JapanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3706-4174
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Hannah Barnes7 NOAA-CIRES Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
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Peter Bechtold8 European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast, Shinfield, UK;9 European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast, Bologna, Italy;10 European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast, Bonn, Germany
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Frederick H. Carr2 School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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Saulo R. Freitas11 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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Steven J. Goodman12 Thunderbolt Global Analytics, Huntsville, AL, USA
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Georg Grell13 NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
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Jongil Han14 NOAA/NCEP Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, USA
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Philip Klotzbach15 Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Woosub Roh16 Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9048-0305
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Masaki Satoh16 Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3580-8897
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Siegfried Schubert17 Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC, and Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA
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Guang Zhang18 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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Ping Zhu19 Department of Earth & Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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Pages 506-517 | Received 25 Apr 2022, Accepted 15 May 2022, Published online: 01 Jun 2022

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