Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue on "Climate and the Earth System".

The Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environment Statistics (JABES) special issue on the Climate and Earth System highlights recent statistical develops that aim to refine our understanding of this complex system. New methods are required to process the massive environmental data that often fuels climate analysis and to properly account for uncertainty in the results. This special issue proudly features eight papers that span a wide range of computational and methodological problems related to the climate and earth system. In this brief introduction, we identify common themes among the papers and point to areas of future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]