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Archaeomagnetism and archaeoclimatic ‘forecast’?

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IT has been suggested1 that the semipermanent pattern of depressions of tropospheric pressure in the north polar regions may be associated with areas of high magnetic field intensity in Canada and Siberia. The physical reasons for the correlation are obscure, because contrary to earlier suggestions, field lines near the magnetic pole are not linked to the interior of the magneto tail2. Nevertheless, the hypothesis, as an empirical principle, is of wide interest in that it would not only organise archaeoclimatic data but it would also form a basis for long term forecasting of general circulation changes.

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CHIU, Y. Archaeomagnetism and archaeoclimatic ‘forecast’?. Nature 250, 642–643 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/250642a0

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