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Global heating supercharging Indian Ocean climate system
Global heating is “supercharging” an increasingly dangerous climate mechanism in the Indian Ocean. WHOI physical oceanographer Caroline Ummenhofer has been a key figure in efforts to understand the importance of the dipole.
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