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Nonlinear threshold behavior during the loss of Arctic sea ice
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Edited by Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and approved November 14, 2008 (received for review July 25, 2008)

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- Published in issue January 6, 2009.
- Published first December 24, 2008.
Author Information
- aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;
- bDepartment of Geology and Geophysics and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 96520; and
- cNordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Roslagstullsbacken 23, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Edited by Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and approved November 14, 2008 (received for review July 25, 2008)
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- 2To whom correspondence should be sent at the present address. E-mail: ian{at}gps.caltech.edu
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Author contributions: I.E. and J.S.W. designed research, performed research, and wrote the paper.
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↵1Present addresses: Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0806887106/DCSupplemental.
- © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
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