The East Asian summer monsoon, the Indian summer monsoon, and the midlatitude westerlies at 4.2 ka BP

Harvey Weiss^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
² Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.

Harvey Weiss. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022.

. 2022 May 17;119(20):e2200796119.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2200796119. Epub 2022 May 13.

Harvey Weiss^{1

2}

¹ School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
² Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no competing interest.

Reply to Weiss: Tree-ring stable oxygen isotopes suggest an increase in Asian monsoon rainfall at 4.2 ka BP.
Yang B, Qin C, Bräuning A, Osborn TJ, Trouet V, Ljungqvist FC, Esper J, Schneider L, Grießinger J, Büntgen U, Rossi S, Dong G, Yan M, Ning L, Wang J, Wang X, Fan B, Wang S, Luterbacher J, Cook ER, Stenseth NC. Yang B, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 May 17;119(20):e2204067119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2204067119. Epub 2022 May 13. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022. PMID: 35561221 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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