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The R code for the performed analysis is deposited at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6564932.
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Starting Grant SPACE (grant agreement number 716092). F.H. is supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. We thank R. Hebert for discussions.
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Laepple, T., Shakun, J., He, F. et al. Concerns of assuming linearity in the reconstruction of thermal maxima. Nature 607, E12–E14 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04831-w
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