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Unequal equinoxes

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Innovative measurements of ocean turbulence show that mixing of cold water from below makes the surface of the equatorial Pacific much colder in September than in March. See Letter p.64

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Figure 1: Tropical Pacific climate.

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  1. Shang-Ping Xie is at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0230, USA.,

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