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Climate research is gaining ground

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The past five years have been an interesting time for the climate and for climate policy. But how has climate science evolved since Nature Climate Change first launched?

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Figure 1: Global heat content.
Figure 2: Sea surface height anomalies in the lead up to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 El Niño events.

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    In this Feature the surname of Dana Fisher was spelt incorrectly in the main text. Corrected in the online versions after print.

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Heffernan, O. Climate research is gaining ground. Nature Clim Change 6, 335–338 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2974

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