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The cause of the pause

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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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Figure 1: Temperature evolution.

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  1. Isaac M. Held is in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, New Jersey 08542, USA.,

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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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