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The rhythm of the rains

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Deposits in a Chinese cave tell the story of the region's climate stretching back more than 200,000 years, well past the last interglacial warm period — an invaluable resource for understanding the Asian monsoon.

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Figure 1: Cave records.

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  1. Jonathan Overpeck and Julia Cole are in the Departments of Geosciences and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. jto@u.arizona.edu,

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