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Increasing wind sinks heat

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Surface global warming has stalled since around 2000 despite increasing atmospheric CO2. A study finds that recent strengthening of Pacific trade winds has enhanced heat transport from the surface to ocean depths, explaining most of the slowed surface warming.

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Figure 1: Recent surface trends.

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  1. Yu Kosaka is at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC206, La Jolla, California 92093-0206, USA,

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Kosaka, Y. Increasing wind sinks heat. Nature Clim Change 4, 172–173 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2138

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