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Climate of the American Tropics and Subtropics in the 1960s and Possible Comparisons With Climatic Variations of the Last Millenium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

W.A. Sanchez  and
J.E. Kutzbach
W.A. Sanchez
Affiliation:
Now with Dpt. de Física y Meteorología, Universidad Nacional Agraria, La Molina, Peru.
J.E. Kutzbach
Affiliation:
Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Abstract

Departures of mean annual precipitation and temperature for the decade 1961–1970 from the 1931–1960 averages are illustrated on maps of the tropical and subtropical portions of the American continents. Certain features of midlatitude climatic anomalies appear to be associated with concurrent anomalies in the tropics. There is an apparent southward shift of circulation features in this longitudinal sector of both hemispheres. A review of selected literature on latitudinal climatic shifts and atmosphere-ocean interaction suggests some similarities between the patterns of climate in the 1960s and the climate of the Little Ice Age.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1974 , pp. 128 - 135
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University of Washington

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