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Assessing temperature pattern projections made in 1989

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Successful projection of the distribution of surface temperature change increases our confidence in climate models. Here we evaluate projections of global warming from almost 30 years ago using the observations made during the past half century.

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Figure 1: Geographical distribution of the change in surface air temperature.
Figure 2: Seasonal variation of the zonal mean change in surface air temperature.
Figure 3: Zonally averaged ocean temperature (°C) change.

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  1. Ronald J. Stouffer is at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA,

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  2. Syukuro Manabe is at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA,

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R.J.S and S.M. equally participated in all aspects of this work.

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