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Tropical ties

Changes in dust flux, export productivity, and bottom-water oxygenation in the equatorial Pacific Ocean have been tightly linked with variations in North Atlantic climate over the past 100,000 years, according to analyses of marine sediments.

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Erhardt, A. Tropical ties. Nature Geosci 10, 714–715 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3025

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