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On average, terrestrial near-surface winds have slowed down in recent decades. This change will affect both wind energy and hydrology.

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Figure 1: Wind turbines located on land and at sea.

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  1. Tim R. McVicar is in the Land and Water Division, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Clunies Ross Drive, Acton, ACT 2602, Australia.,

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  2. Michael L. Roderick is in the Research School of Earth Sciences and the Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. tim.mcvicar@csiro.au; michael.roderick@anu.edu.au,

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McVicar, T., Roderick, M. Winds of change. Nature Geosci 3, 747–748 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1002

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