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North Atlantic climate swings

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The North Atlantic Oscillation has shown high variability over the past few decades. A two-hundred-year-long temperature reconstruction from a Bermuda coral suggests a link to recent climate warming.

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Figure 1: The connection between the sea surface temperatures11 and the North Atlantic Oscillation.

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Timm, O. North Atlantic climate swings. Nature Geosci 1, 811–812 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo370

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