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Spatiotemporal patterns of warming

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Ji et al.1 present a methodology to analyse global (excluding Antarctica) spatiotemporal patterns of temperature change, using mean monthly temperatures obtained from the updated Climate Research Unit (CRU) high-resolution gridded climate database2,3. Their analysis fails to take into account several key characteristics of the CRU database, seriously compromising the conclusions regarding the spatiotemporal patterns of global warming during the twentieth century.

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Figure 1: Number of years with repeated monthly temperature values per 0.5° land grid cell (for example, repeated March temperature values over different years; period 1901–2012).

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  1. Department of Zoology, Long-term Ecology Lab, Biodiversity Institute, Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, OX1 3PS, Oxford, UK

    Marc Macias-Fauria, David Benz, Peter R. Long & Kathy Willis

  2. Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Postboks 7803, N-5006, Bergen, Norway

    Alistair W. R. Seddon & Kathy Willis

  3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Brentford Gate, TW9 3AB, London, UK

    Kathy Willis

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Macias-Fauria, M., Seddon, A., Benz, D. et al. Spatiotemporal patterns of warming. Nature Clim Change 4, 845–846 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2372

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