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1 Asian Monsoons and Climate
Orographic Effect Oxygen Isotope Distallation Asian Monsoons Holocene Climatic Optimum

2 Image by timmeko on flicker

3 Image by Monica Bruckner, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College

4 The globe program -http://www. globe

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7 Late Quaternary Monsoon Precipitation
Drier than present Last Glacial Maximum Wetter than present Climatic Optimum Arid regions Present Conditions 18ka 18ka 9ka 9ka present present (COHMAP, 1988, Science):

8 Immense G-B sediment discharge … synchronous with strong monsoon and rapid sea level rise
(A and B. – Prins and Postma, 2000, Geology C. – Goodbred and Kuehl, 2000, Geology)

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