The hydrology of the North American west looked very different at the Last Glacial Maximum to today. A model–data comparison suggests the observed precipitation patterns are best explained if the storm track was squeezed and steered by high-pressure systems.
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Putnam, A. A glacial zephyr. Nature Geosci 8, 175–176 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2377
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