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Weakened evidence for mid-latitude impacts of Arctic warming

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Fig. 1: Indicators of Arctic change and its possible mid-latitude impacts.

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Acknowledgements

The authors were supported by a UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) grant (NE/P006760/1). The sea-ice extent data are available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center21. The Arctic Oscillation index is provided by the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (ref. 22). ERA-5 reanalysis23 data are freely available at the Copernicus Climate Change Service Climate Data Store (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/home).

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Blackport, R., Screen, J.A. Weakened evidence for mid-latitude impacts of Arctic warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 1065–1066 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00954-y

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