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3 Interdisciplinary Aspects
Pages 25-26

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... Space weather activities cross boundaries between Heliophysics, Planetary Sciences, and Earth Sciences; and comparative climatology bridges all disciplines. The draft Science Plan acknowledges these interconnections by including a series of interdisciplinary science boxes between the discipline sections in Chapter 4.
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... concentrate on the activities of one to the near exclusion of others. Recommendation: The interdisciplinary boxes in the Science Plan should explicitly indicate how the activities described therein link the activities of two or more NASA divisions and/or directorates.
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