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Beyond the CO2 connection

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At times in the past, mobile ocean fronts in the subtropics have exercised an influence on the magnitude of climate change by decoupling temperature from levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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Figure 1: The Agulhas current and the subtropical front.

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  1. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals and Departmento de Geologia, Rainer Zahn is at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra E-08193, Spain. rainer.zahn@uab.cat,

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Zahn, R. Beyond the CO2 connection. Nature 460, 335–336 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460335a

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