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SUBMITTER: Liu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4674685 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Yi Y Lo Li L Shi Zhengguo Z Wei Kuo-Yen KY Chou Chien-Ju CJ Chen Yi-Chi YC Chuang Chih-Kai CK Wu Chung-Che CC Mii Horng-Sheng HS Peng Zicheng Z Amakawa Hiroshi H Burr George S GS Lee Shih-Yu SY DeLong Kristine L KL Elderfield Henry H Shen Chuan-Chou CC
Nature communications 20151125
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) encompasses the heaviest rain belt on the Earth. Few direct long-term records, especially in the Pacific, limit our understanding of long-term natural variability for predicting future ITCZ migration. Here we present a tropical precipitation record from the Southern Hemisphere covering the past 282,000 years, inferred from a marine sedimentary sequence collected off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Unlike the precession paradigm expressed in its Ea ...[more]