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Future oceans under pressure

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Subtropical highs influence climate over extensive regions of the planet. These maritime high-pressure systems are set to intensify in boreal summer over the coming century, as a result of an increase in the land–sea thermal contrast.

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Figure 1: Atmosphere–ocean feedbacks in the Northern Hemisphere.

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  1. Hisashi Nakamura is at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan, and in the Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama 236-0001, Japan,

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