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The East Asian winter monsoon variability in response to precession during the past 150 000 yr
M. Yamamoto
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-10, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-10, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
H. Sai
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-10, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Present address: Hitachi Advanced Systems Corporation. Yokohama 244-0817, Japan
M.-T. Chen
Institute of Applied Geosciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan
M. Zhao
Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology of the Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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