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The Atlantic's internal drum beat

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The North Atlantic region experiences climate variability on a range of timescales. A climate reconstruction suggests that large-magnitude, multidecadal internal variability was a robust feature over the past 1,200 years.

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Figure 1: Atlantic multidecadal variability.

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  2. the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, PO Box 100, New York, 10964, Palisades, USA

    Jason E. Smerdon

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Coats, S., Smerdon, J. The Atlantic's internal drum beat. Nature Geosci 10, 470–471 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2970

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