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The FACTS and CESM simulations are freely available and were obtained from the following repositories: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/repository/facts and https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/projects/community-projects/LENS/.
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The authors thank M. Mori for providing data from the MIROC simulations and for useful discussions. We acknowledge the individuals and modelling groups that contributed to the Facility for Climate Assessments (FACTS) multimodel dataset and the CESM Large Ensemble Project.
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Screen, J.A., Blackport, R. Is sea-ice-driven Eurasian cooling too weak in models?. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 934–936 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0635-1
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