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Discipline field groups earth scientists by the branch of science each one actually practiced. Wikipedia describes Alfred Wegener as "a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher," a scientist whose work spanned several fields at once. This dimension shows which fields have produced the people behind a given discovery.

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or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. 1
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1. Climatology (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationClimatology, lead section, definition sentence (scientist-field bucket)
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or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years.
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