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... he fortunes of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/NSTC/html/USGS/index.html#anchor299544) that began in 1977 and continues today with about $100 million in annual funding, as well as to the fortunes of programs focused on global change, and more recently, on the carbon cycle. Indeed, the seeming low priority placed on the U.S. Weather Research Program, as measured by appropriated budgets, gives some plausibility to the idea that weather has been less successful in the budget process than other research communities (see this issue's guest editorial). The perception that the weat ...