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Clean air policy and Arctic warming

The enhanced Arctic warming over the past three decades is attracting much attention. Combining forward and inverse models with observations suggests that regional changes in aerosol concentrations have contributed significantly.

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Figure 1: Three decades of warming.

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Keenlyside, N. Clean air policy and Arctic warming. Nature Geosci 2, 243–244 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo486

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