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Shifts in season

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It's cold in winter and hot in summer. But the latest analysis illustrates the need to put observational data at the forefront of attempts to achieve a more detailed understanding of the annual temperature cycle.

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Figure 1: Migrating greylag geese.

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  1. David J. Thomson is in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N5, Canada. djt@mast.queensu.ca,

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Thomson, D. Shifts in season. Nature 457, 391–392 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457391a

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