sentence: The resulting near-surface cooling in the eastern Pacific amplifies the Atlantic -- Pacific pressure seesaw , thus further intensifying the trade winds -LSB- ... -RSB- It turns out that the current generation of climate models underestimates the extent of the Atlantic -- Pacific coupling , which means that they can not properly capture the observed eastern Pacific cooling , which has contributed significantly to the leveling off , or the hiatus , in global warming . ''
question: how is something coupled _ _ _ ?
answers: Atlantic -- Pacific coupling