Effective decadal climate prediction is urgently needed, but achieving this is still very challenging. Now research suggests that greenhouse warming may compound these difficulties with less predictable global decadal climate variability.
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This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFA0600404).
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Yuan, N., Lu, Z. Warming reduces predictability. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 13–14 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0669-4
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