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Raised bar for rain

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Controversy has surrounded projections of tropical temperatures aloft in a changing climate. An analysis of sea surface temperatures and rainfall over the past decades suggests amplified warming in the upper atmosphere, consistent with theory and models.

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Figure 1: Schematic for climate warming over the tropical oceans.

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  1. Adam Sobel is in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 500 W. 120th Street, New York 10027, USA. ahs129@columbia.edu,

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Sobel, A. Raised bar for rain. Nature Geosci 3, 821–822 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1025

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