Emergent constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity from global temperature variability

2018/01/01 by Peter M. Cox, Chris Huntingford, Mark S. Williamson · 435 citations
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paper · open access · doi:10.1038/nature25450

published in Nature 553(7688), 319-322 (Nature Portfolio)

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