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Review article: Interdisciplinary perspectives on climate sciences – highlighting past and current scientific achievements
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Tommaso Alberti
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
Lesley De Cruz
Scientific Service Observations, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Christian L. E. Franzke
Center for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Busan, Republic of Korea
Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
Valerio Lembo
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISAC), Bologna, Italy
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In the online seminar series "Perspectives on climate sciences: from historical developments to future frontiers" (2020–2021), well-known and established scientists from several fields – including mathematics, physics, climate science and ecology – presented their perspectives on the evolution of climate science and on relevant scientific concepts. In this paper, we first give an overview of the content of the seminar series, and then we introduce the written contributions to this special issue.
In the online seminar series "Perspectives on climate sciences: from historical developments to...
