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Fig. 1: Analysis of the robustness of the emergent constraint on ECS.
Fig. 2: Dependence of the emergent constraint on the time period.

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    Martin Rypdal, Hege-Beate Fredriksen, Kristoffer Rypdal & Rebekka J. Steene

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M.R., H.-B.F., K.R. and R.J.S. designed the study. H.-B.F. and R.J.S. collected data from the CMIP5 ensemble. M.R. and H.-B.F. performed the analyses. M.R., H.-B.F. and K.R. wrote the paper, with input from all authors.

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Rypdal, M., Fredriksen, HB., Rypdal, K. et al. Emergent constraints on climate sensitivity. Nature 563, E4–E5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0639-4

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