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Leading the hiatus research surge

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The recent slowdown in global warming challenged our understanding of climate dynamics and anthropogenic forcing. An early study gave insight to the mechanisms behind the warming slowdown and highlighted the ocean's role in regulating global temperature.

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Figure 1: Ocean–atmospheric trends during hiatus periods.

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  1. Shang-Ping Xie is at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0206, USA,

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