Drastic shrinking of the Hadley circulation during the mid-Cretaceous Supergreenhouse

Hasegawa, H.; Tada, R.; Jiang, X.; Suganuma, Y.; Imsamut, S.; Charusiri, P.; Ichinnorov, N.; Khand, Y.

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Drastic shrinking of the Hadley circulation during the mid-Cretaceous Supergreenhouse

H. Hasegawa, R. Tada, X. Jiang, Y. Suganuma, S. Imsamut, P. Charusiri, N. Ichinnorov, and Y. Khand

H. Hasegawa

Department of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Department of Natural History Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan

now at: Nagoya University Museum, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

R. Tada

Department of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

X. Jiang

Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chengdu 610082, China

Y. Suganuma

Department of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan

S. Imsamut

Department of Mineral Resources, Bureau of Geological Survey, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

P. Charusiri

Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

N. Ichinnorov

Paleontological Center, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar 210351, Mongolia

Y. Khand

Paleontological Center, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar 210351, Mongolia

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Precessional and half-precessional climate forcing of Mid-Devonian monsoon-like dynamics

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