Raymond Pierrehumbert, a climate
dynamicist at the University of Chicago, kindly offered to write a guest editorial to further clarify
what we do and don't know about tropical glacier retreat.
The hemispheric scale adds to the potential uses of
what was already the gold standard of paleo - hydroclimate research, said Sloan Coats, a climate
dynamicist at the University of Colorado who studies megadroughts using the atlases.