Understanding millennial-scale climate variability provides context for present and future climate change. It now emerges that temperatures were spatially and seasonally more heterogeneous over the past 1,000 years than previously thought.
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Jungclaus, J. Lessons from the past millennium. Nature Geosci 2, 468–470 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo559
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