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Inferred changes in El Niño–Southern Oscillation variance over the past six centuries
S. McGregor
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
A. Timmermann
International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
M. H. England
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
O. Elison Timm
International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
A. T. Wittenberg
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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