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Amendment 72: New Opportunity: A.17 Hydrosphere

A.17 Hydrosphere solicits research on the Earth’s Hydrosphere: to advance the understanding of the physics of Earth’s water across the ocean, land, and the atmosphere. This Hydrosphere element is composed of three Earth science disciplines: ocean physics, terrestrial hydrology, and precipitation science. The overlapping goals of are to address fundamental questions about the distribution,…

Amendment 72: New Opportunity: A.17 Hydrosphere

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