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...they rebound again. But this double bounce inverts their effect: instead of depressing the thermocline, these twice-reflected waves now lift it up. Cool water dilutes the warmer liquid at the surface, causing a temperature drop in the eastern Pacific known, aptly enough, as La Nina. Thus, observes Ants Leetmaa, director of the National Climate Prediction Center, "each El Nino contains the seeds of its own destruction...
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