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Studying climate stabilization at Paris Agreement levels

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Since the Paris Agreement, the impacts of 1.5 and 2 °C global warming have been emphasized, but the rate of warming also has regional effects. A new framework of model experiments is needed to increase our understanding of climate stabilization and its impacts.

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Fig. 1: A framework for delivering climate projections consistent with the Paris Agreement.

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A.D.K. was funded by the Australian Research Council (DE180100638). J.M.K.S. was funded by Australian Research Council grant FL160100028 to J. Woodhead. A.J.D. and E.H. were funded by the UK NERC REAL project (NE/N018591/1).

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  1. School of Geography, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Andrew D. King, J. M. Kale Sniderman & Josephine R. Brown

  2. ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Andrew D. King & Josephine R. Brown

  3. National Centre for Atmospheric Science and Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Andrea J. Dittus & Ed Hawkins

  4. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia

    Tilo Ziehn

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King, A.D., Sniderman, J.M.K., Dittus, A.J. et al. Studying climate stabilization at Paris Agreement levels. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 1010–1013 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01225-0

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