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Science 2 October 1981:
Vol. 214. no. 4516, pp. 59 - 61
DOI: 10.1126/science.214.4516.59
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Monsoon Climate of the Early Holocene: Climate Experiment with the Earth's Orbital Parameters for 9000 Years Ago

JOHN E. KUTZBACH 1

1 Center for Climatic Research and Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706

Values for the precession and obliquity of the earth 9000 years ago indicate that the global average solar radiation for July 9000 years ago was 7 percent greater than at present. When the estimated solar radiation values are used in a low-resulation climate model, the model simulates an intensified continent-scale monsoon circulation. This result agrees with paleoclimatic evidence from Africa, Arabia, and India that monsoon rains were stronger between 10,000 and 5000 years ago than they are today.

Submitted on May 15, 1981
Revised on July 27, 1981


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