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Climate in phase

Abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period affected most of the Northern Hemisphere. Greenland ice core data suggest that for the penultimate abrupt warming event, climate change was nearly synchronous at high and low latitudes.

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Figure 1: Air trapped in ice.

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Wolff, E. Climate in phase. Nature Geosci 7, 397–398 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2165

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