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An end-to-end comprehensive climate information system is needed to complement mitigation and adaptation as responses to the threat of human-induced climate change.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the 'three-legged stool' response to climate change, with satellite imagery of the planet on top and the legs labelled as adaptation, mitigation and information.
Figure 2: A schematic of the flow of the climate information system, as basic research feeds into applied and operational research and the development of climate services.

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  1. Kevin E. Trenberth is at National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307, USA,

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  2. Melinda Marquis is at Global Systems Division, ESRL, NOAA, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA,

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  3. Stephen Zebiak is at Climate Information Services, Ltd., Tappan, New York 10983, USA and International Research Institute for Climate and Society Palisades, New York 10964, USA,

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Trenberth, K., Marquis, M. & Zebiak, S. The vital need for a climate information system. Nature Clim Change 6, 1057–1059 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3170

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