Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-307-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-307-2013
Research article
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05 Feb 2013
Research article |  | 05 Feb 2013

The Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age in the eastern Ecuadorian Andes

M.-P. Ledru, V. Jomelli, P. Samaniego, M. Vuille, S. Hidalgo, M. Herrera, and C. Ceron

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