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Analogue complexity

The last deglaciation was punctuated by several millennial-scale climate changes. In the Gulf of California, the cold stages were marked by decreased upwelling, opposite to the changes expected if these shifts were analogous to modern seasonal variability.

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Figure 1: Ocean currents off California.

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Pak, D. Analogue complexity. Nature Geosci 5, 450–451 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1510

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