Strong regional climatic fluctuations in the tropics

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 15:56 in Earth & Climate

Climatic fluctuations close to the equator show a different pattern to climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. In the tropics distinct 11500 year fluctuations between wet and dry periods can be clearly identified which do not occur in temperature reconstructions of polar ice cores.

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