The slowdown in surface warming in the early twenty-first century has been traced to strengthening of the Pacific trade winds. The search for the causes identifies a planetary-scale see-saw of atmosphere and ocean between the Atlantic and Pacific basins.
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Kosaka, Y. Slow warming and the ocean see-saw. Nature Geosci 11, 12–13 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-017-0038-8
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