A global climate model that factors in the observed temperature of the surface ocean in the eastern equatorial Pacific offers an explanation for the recent hiatus in global warming. See Letter p.403
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Held, I. The cause of the pause. Nature 501, 318–319 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/501318a
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