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Climate's playground

Abrupt climate changes in the glacial North Atlantic altered the position of wind systems in the Northern Hemisphere and tropics. Ice-core data show that this disruption also reached the southern westerlies.

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Figure 1: Interhemispheric climate links.

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Abram, N. Climate's playground. Nature Geosci 10, 7–8 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2856

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