What do periods of weak low-latitude rainfall have to do with the
meltdown of great ice sheets? Cheng et al. show that this counterintuitive association contains a hot clue about
the much-debated causes of the ice age cycles that end every 100,000
years or so in a collapse of the great Northern Hemisphere ice sheets
(a glacial termination).
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/monsoons-and-meltdowns
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jeffrey-p-severinghaus
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/science
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/monsoons
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-science
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/asia
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/n-c-america
