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Test of a decadal climate forecast

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Figure 1: Evaluation of decadal climate forecasts (updated from Fig. 3 of ref. 2).

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This work was supported by the Joint DECC and Defra Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme (GA01101). P.A.S. and M.R.A. were also supported by the US Department of Energy through the International Detection and Attribution Group (IDAG) and M.R.A. received support from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) End-to-end Quantification of Uncertainty for Impacts Prediction (EQUIP) project. We thank the climate modelling groups contributing to the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) CMIP5 project for producing and making available their model output, and G. Jones for providing data.

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