Reconstructing topsy-turvy paleoclimate of Western U.S. 21,000 years ago

Reconstructing topsy-turvy paleoclimate of Western U.S. 21,000 years ago

02/26/2015 10:56 AM EST

Researchers have created the first comprehensive map of the topsy-turvy climate in the Western U.S. 21,000 years ago, when the Southwest was wet and the Northwest was dry, and are using it to test and improve the global climate models that have been developed to predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future.

Full story at http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/02/time-when-climate-was-topsy-turvy-in-western-u-s-aids-climate-prediction-efforts/

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Vanderbilt University

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