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Centennial warming of ocean jets

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Identification of an enhanced centennial warming trend in ocean subtropical boundary currents has important implications for our understanding of how climate change is happening.

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Figure 1: The western boundary current, the Gulf Stream, in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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