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The wavenumber-4 story

How a patch of warm water near New Zealand can set off a wave that circles the Southern Hemisphere, change the ocean beneath it, and shift rainfall over the southern continents.

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A simplified cartoon of results from Senapati et al. (2021, 2022a, 2022b, 2024); positions and sizes are schematic.