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Letter
Nature Geoscience 2, 210–214 (1 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/ngeo444
Orbitally driven east|[ndash]|west antiphasing of South|[nbsp]|American precipitation
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Abstract
The variations of tropical precipitation are antiphased between the hemispheres on orbital timescales. This antiphasing arises through the alternating strength of incoming solar radiation in the two hemispheres, which affects monsoon intensity and hence the position of the meridional atmospheric circulation of the Hadley cells.
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