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The origin of regional Arctic warming

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Observational data and modelling show that the rapid warming of the northeastern Canada and Greenland sector of the Arctic over the past three decades has been strongly driven by cooling in the tropical Pacific Ocean. See Letter p.209

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Figure 1: Trend in annual mean surface temperature.

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  1. Jürgen Bader is at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 20146 Hamburg, Germany, and at Uni Climate, Uni Research & the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway.,

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