Uncertainty over tropical tropospheric temperature change has loomed large over the last two decades. Use of wind data to infer temperature change offers a new avenue of investigation.
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Thorne, P. The answer is blowing in the wind. Nature Geosci 1, 347–348 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo209
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