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Although displacement of atmospheric circulation patterns is a common and attractive explanation for climatic change, some recent paleoclimatic records from western North America indicate that although relative strengths have changed, the positions of some major circulation features have remained the same during the late Quaternary.
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Davis, O.K. (1989). The Regionalization of Climatic Change in Western North America. In: Leinen, M., Sarnthein, M. (eds) Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport. NATO ASI Series, vol 282. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0995-3_26
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