Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming

Nature Geoscience - Tập 4 Số 6 - Trang 398-403 - 2011
Qinghua Ding1, Eric J. Steig1, David S. Battisti2, Marcel Küttel1
1Quaternary Research Center and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Washington 98195, USA
2Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Washington 98195, USA

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