American Geophysical Union adds first paper to US Climate Collection

The American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society have added the first paper to their new US Climate Collection, a centralized resource designed to replace work halted by the Trump administration. The collection serves as a hub for peer-reviewed scientific papers that would have otherwise contributed to the next US National Climate Assessment. This initiative follows the administration's decision to eliminate funding for the US Global Change Research Program and remove hundreds of contributing authors from the assessment process. Despite legal requirements for these reports, the administration also took past reports offline, prompting other organizations to host copies to maintain public access. The US Climate Collection operates differently from the US Global Change Research Program or the International Panel on Climate Change. Instead of coordinating a single, massive report, the groups invite research teams to publish in scientific journals. These publications are then aggregated into a central resource for future report writers. The initial contribution is a roadmap intended to prioritize future scientific input. Authored by 149 researchers, many of whom previously worked on the US National Climate Assessment, the paper is being published simultaneously in two journals. One journal is operated by the American Geophysical Union, and the other by the American Meteorological Society.