Hybrid insolation forcing of Pliocene monsoon dynamics in West Africa
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Early Pleistocene glacial cycles and the integrated summer insolation forcing.
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عنوان ژورنال: Climate of the Past
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1814-9332
DOI: 10.5194/cp-14-73-2018