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climate data consumers and the community of researchers and scholars who are the dis-
seminators and facilitators of information flow. The climate system is:
… highly complex … interacting with an enormous number of at least equally com-
plicated ecological systems, each with innumerable degrees of freedom, and a large
number of potential modes of activity…there are ample opportunities for the small,
seemingly insignificant, factors to combine in unexpected ways, and produce surprise
… (Akbari et al. 17 ).
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