Millennial-scale interhemispheric asymmetry of low-latitude precipitation: Speleothem evidence and possible high-latitude forcing

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 173, Issue , 2007, Pages 279-294

  Wang, Xianfeng ^a   Lawrence Edwards, R ^a   Auler, Augusto S ^b   Cheng, Hai ^a   Ito, Emi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Instituto do Carste   (Brazil)

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EID: 84890575511     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/173GM18     Document Type: Chapter

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