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

Harvey Weiss^{1

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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.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no competing interest.

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