Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02618-9The sea–land breeze acts to counter urban heat in many coastal cities. Here the authors simulate how this circulation changes with warming ocean water, showing that it decreases in most of them, adding heat stress to urban areas.
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