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Set in Russia between 1890 and 1912, Your Mouth Is Lovely follows the story of Miriam, a nineteen-year-old sent into Siberian exile after the Russian Revolution of 1905. In a letter to her daughter -- whom she was forced to give up at birth -- Miriam presents a haunting flashback to a shtetl in Belarus, where everyone except herself knew the secret of her parents' past and the mystery behind her young mother's suicide. As Miriam narrates the story of her poignant childhood, she brings to life the culture of the shtetl in the last days of imperial Russia, a community caught between the rich yet rigid traditions of the past and the frightening, unfamiliar ways of a society desperately trying to reinvent itself. A story of love and loss, crime and punishment, Your Mouth Is Lovely captures an ordinary woman caught in the circumstances of her era, and shows how small choices, twists of fate, and betrayals can determine a particular life, even at the great, transitional moments in history.
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Think of a Dvorak Romantic Piece -- Beautifully Tragic!.......2007-05-30
This is a wonderfully rich story with characters so authentically portrayed that I still think of them. I wish that this author would write more. Think Dickens & Tolstoy -- it's here. If you like a little sadness sprinkled with lots of great atmosphere & good dialolgue, this is a must read!! There is music, in a minor key, on every page!! It will, most likely, remain to be one of my favorite books. I've only kept a few of my books. Among those kept are: Pat Conroy's works, Nuala O'Faolain's book, Katie Singer's book & this rare jewel!!
A good book.......2004-12-03
This novel is an interesting look into rural Jewish culture and society within imperial Russia. It is also a fascinating look at women giving their lives for the "cause" in the 1905 Russian Revolution. I quite enjoyed this story. Miriam, the main character, is an interesting individual with a dramatic past, present, and future. The writing is excellent and the story keeps you interested. I did get a bit lost in the Jewish nomenclature of special days and events, but a dictionary helped with that.
A bittersweet tale of both motherhood and daughterhood.......2003-02-10
Modern Russian literature is renowned for its ability to render revolutionary action and violence into poetry and lyrical prose. Passionate, as well as intellectually and emotionally challenging, it is often able to present darkness and sorrow in a beautiful artistic light. Nancy Richler, in her second novel, has taken the desperation found in many of the Russian classics, softened it with Jewish folkloric style and created a touching and memorable novel. In YOUR MOUTH IS LOVELY, part Trotsky, part Tolstoy and part Sholom Aleichem, Richler presents the failed 1905 Russian Revolution from the perspective of shtetl, or village, Jews and presents the shtetl and its inhabitants from the perspective of one young Jewish revolutionary.
The story centers on Miriam, the narrator of the tale. It is 1912; she is only 23 and serving a life sentence in a Siberian prison for violent and subversive action against the state. But her intent in writing is not to disseminate socialist ideals. Instead she is writing to the daughter who does not know her and never will, the daughter she bore in prison. She is writing her life story. So, it is with the tenderness of a mother's love that the tale is told, despite the hardships the characters endure.
Miriam's mother drowned herself the day Miriam was born, still grieving from the loss of her infant son. Miriam's father, Aaron Lev, put her in the care of the wet-nurse Lipsa, who raised Miriam as one of her own for almost six years. When Aaron Lev marries Tsila, a strong-willed and sharply intelligent young woman, they send for Miriam and thus a new stage in her life begins. Under Tsila's tutelage, Miriam continues her Jewish education, but is also taught to think for herself and question the world around her. Tsila, known as a sour woman, shows Miriam the only maternal love she ever knows. Miriam quickly adapts to her new life with Tsila and Aaron Lev --- and adaptability becomes a theme in her life as she is incredibly impressionable in her acts and opinions. Despite the home she shares with Tsila and Aaron Lev and the predictable patterns of shtetl life, she is haunted by the deaths of her mother and brother, neither of whom she ever knew. As she grows up, the spirit of revolution moves many Jews across the countryside. Tsila's sister Bayla is one of them and eventually moves to Kiev to create the bombs that will fuel the revolution. Aaron Lev and Tsila, desiring a new life free of anti-Semitism, pogroms and brutal winters, decide to move to Argentina. Miriam is sent to Kiev to locate Bayla and the socialist agitators and radicals quickly put her to work. The illegal Bund meetings she attended in the shtetl cannot prepare her for the type of life she is about to embark upon.
After several months in prison following an initial arrest, living with a mysterious man named Wolf in the typhus-ridden ravines of Kiev and a single sexual encounter, Miriam finds herself again arrested but this time pregnant and facing the death penalty. Her sentence commuted to life in a Siberian prison, Miriam hands her newborn baby over to Bayla who then flees for Canada, pretending the girl is her own. Wracked with illness and depression, Miriam begins her autobiography, at once her own story, the story of the shtetl and the story of the futile attempt at revolution. For Miriam, confused for most of her life on the true identity of her parents and feeling rootless and disconnected, the connections and roots she creates for her daughter are the only gifts she can offer --- and the gift she longed to be given all her life.
YOUR MOUTH IS LOVELY is not really about political or social revolution --- it is about the attempt (and failure) of one woman to revolutionize her own life and spirit. But Miriam is doomed to fail at this enterprise, as she is truly disconnected from the world around her. Some readers may be frustrated at Miriam's passivity and lack of passion, but Richler is true to her character and doesn't save her in the end. Miriam's disconnectedness and longing set the tone of the book, which is both sweet and sorrowful. Her hopes for herself are lost but, because of her daughter, who is safe in Montreal, her life has not been without meaning and purpose. Richler's Miriam is not a very dedicated revolutionary. Instead she is at all times a lost little girl who is always searching for something she cannot quite put her finger on. Yet, she is sympathetic.
YOUR MOUTH IS LOVELY is a bittersweet tale of motherhood and daughterhood. Richler is a wonderful and vivid storyteller; her characters brighten even the darkest setting with their very humanity.
--- Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman
Haunting portrait of pre-revolutionary Russian shtetl life.......2002-12-19
Exploring her own Russian-Jewish roots, Canadian author Richler ("Throw Away Angels") sets her first U.S.-published novel in pre-revolutionary Russia, with its pogroms, poverty, foment and brutal repression. The book takes the form of a chronicle written from a Siberian prison by 23-year-old Miriam for the daughter she has not seen since the day of her birth, six years before. It's late winter, 1911, and the long season has taken its toll.
"We're beyond tired, beyond cold. The blood that fills my mouth is sticky, souring even as I still draw breath. Job floats unbidden into mind. NAKED CAME I INTO THE WORLD AND NAKED WILL I LEAVE IT THITHER. The cold drags on even as the light returns. I write to you, but my hand falters. TO EVERYTHING ITS SEASON, and mine was this: twenty-three years in the bowels of the turning century. I feel my end coming. THE LORD GIVETH AND HE TAKETH AWAY. Then I cough again and it's the taste of my own blood that spurs me on. Is it not still thick and pungent and rich as the heart that pumps it? I pick up the pen once again and move it across the page."
Miriam then begins her life story with the circumstances of her birth in a rural shtetl in 1887. Her mother drowned herself the day after her daughter's birth and Miriam spent her first six years with a large, boisterous peasant family before her shoemaker father remarried and reclaimed his daughter. The talented seamstress, Tsila, his new wife, her face "marked by Divine anger" (a large strawberry birthmark) is considered ill-tempered, but Miriam, though intimidated, is struck by the beauty of the unmarked profile and soon benefits from her stepmother's sharp intellect. True, the house is quieter than Miriam is used to and Tsila has no patience for the gossip and superstition of village life, but she teaches Miriam to read and fosters an interest in the wider world.
Unfortunately, revolutionary fervor comes to the shtetl while Miriam is old enough to be wandering about on her own, but not old enough to benefit from her stepmother's wisdom. Flattered by an offer of friendship, Miriam toys with revolutionary ideas, feeling like a fraud for her lack of real interest. Nevertheless she hides a parcel of dynamite for a young man she barely knows, frightening Tsila into setting in motion a plan for emigrating to Argentina. But before they go Miriam journeys to Kiev to find Tsila's sister who is shamefully cohabiting with a young revolutionary. Miriam is seduced by the city - its multitudes, architecture, variety - all its teeming life. Day by day, week by week, she resists returning home, and once again is drawn to the young intellectuals - the revolutionaries.
Richler successfully evokes the emotions and wonder of a young girl at the turn of the century, struck by her first metropolis, falling almost without volition into the danger and excitement of revolution. Miriam is never political. Her fate is a simple accident of timing, and all the sadder for that. Richler's brief portraits of other revolutionaries hint at similar irrelevant motivations: rebelling against a parent, following a man, winning respect, seeking thrills, bonding with the group.
Richler's moving portrayal of the shtetl details its joys and agonies in a vivid depiction of daily life. We see the closeness of people who've lived beside one another forever and their narrow mindedness too, gossip, failure and superstition passed on through generations. We see them at work and at worship, religion woven into the fabric of their lives. The devout pride of Jewish life lives hand-in-hand with the fear of pogroms, often instigated by the manipulations of a government and aristocracy eager to deflect the population's rage from themselves.
The writing is richly descriptive, the characters subtly drawn. Tsila is particularly memorable, with her trenchant wit and her strong, deep capacity for love. It's a story of inevitable tragedy, of luck and irony, of coming of age in the midst of currents stronger than any individual. A fine and absorbing novel.
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Zoya Kundara has lived on the space vessel Star Road for two hundred fifty years. As its Ship Mother, kept alive in a state of pseudoimmortality, she has provided wisdom and counsel to succeeding generations of its crew, self-exiled survivors of earth’s great plague.
But now, to escape the ravages of space radiation, the giant starship has returned to earth, only to discover a world on the verge of extinction, its barren surface blanketed in a crystalline substance that resembles ice and that is slowly, inexorably encapsulating the planet. Zoya is chosen as emissary to this strange new earth, and now she must approach its denizens and find a suitable home for her desperate crew among the shrinking lands.
But what she finds shakes Zoya to her core: groups of humans huddled like moles in underground techno-warrens called preserves, and a pseudospiritual order known as the Ice Nuns, who seek control of the physics-defying crystals and enslave their disciples in their crazed quest for truth. For on this once green land, Ice and the science behind it are now the only God–and mastering this grand ecology of information the only higher calling. Allies are few and far between, but somehow Zoya must uncover the secrets of Ice and halt its expansion.
That is, if the snow witches don’t get her first...
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Sadly derivative Tepper-esque story.......2005-02-27
I've just finished reading Maximum Ice, and was hoping for something significantly more off-the-wall and original, given I first found it on a Philip K. Dick award shortlist.
Unfortunately, the book itself, describing the return of a Gypsy interstallar generational colony ship to an Earth covered in pseudocrystalline 'Ice' is extremely derivative and spends its time in shallow explorations of a couple of character interactions whilst quickly glossing over the technology and its implications. Disappointing, if you're a fan of Hard SF, but perhaps worthwhile if you've read everything else of note and are chasing a lightweight distraction. Read all of the Tepper books instead.
Ice 9, Kenyon style.......2004-09-12
After centuries of searching the galaxy for a habitable world (and failing), the people of the road return to Earth. They find that the Earth is nearly covered with an impossible crystal substance referred to as "Ice." Ice, it turns out, is a massive information storage system, and the inhabitants have only one religion - what secrets does Ice hold?
All in all, this is a worthwhile read. While many of Ice's secrets are revealed early in the book, the actual purpose (and problem) with Ice is withheld until the end. Parts of the book do meander a bit, but everything drives forward toward the ultimate goal of both the people of the road and the inhabitants of this far-future Earth. While some of the characters are a tad shallow, you can feel the trouble and worries of the main characters.
While Kenyon has crafted a good story, it didn't grab hold of me as well it could have. There is somewhat of a dystopian feel to the novel, something that is common in SF these days, and while that maybe considered intellectual in some circles it's always left a bad taste in my mouth. There were certain sub plots that I felt were resolved too easily. Without going into too much detail, there was a conspiracy that seemed to go away with a few quick words.
While Maximum Ice (I still think that's a cool title) is not award material, it proves that Kay Kenyon is a good storyteller. I plan on reading more of her work in the future.
Disappointing . . ........2004-06-23
I picked this book up because I thought the author might do a good job at creating the post-apocalyptic culture of Ice and its nuns described on the back. However, I was greatly disappointed in the actual story . . .
Maximum Ice does the one thing authors should never do if they want to keep a reader's attention for a long novel -- it tells you what and who and why everything is basically within the beginning section of the book! What's the point of reading the rest if you already've been told everything? From that point on, the story just meanders on predictably and rather dully until all the not-very-interesting characters realize all the things the reader already knows. Very disappointing and certainly nothing new or interesting in the genre -- definitely not a keeper.
New Take On An Old Theme.......2004-01-16
The man versus machine storyline is certainly not a new one, but Kay Kenyon has put a unique spin on it in MAXIMUM ICE. The "machine" is a powerful computer that was originally developed to protect Earth. This system, called Ice, was based on a self-replicating chemical structure and, over a span of several thousand years, it has grown to the point where it threatens to totally engulf the planet, eliminating all life in the process. The "man" side of the equation is spearheaded by shipmother Zoya. She represents a band of star-faring expatriots whose ancestors left Earth before Ice and who now want to re-settle. In between are ice witches, some unholy nuns, ravenous rats, mutinous officers, and other assorted complications. The story is different enough to be interesting and the main characters, while not exactly "deep", are sufficiently developed to be appealing.
This is the first book by Kenyon that I've read. I liked it. There was plenty of action, and the concept and characters kept me entertained. I'll be reading more of Kenyon's books in the future, and I recommend this one to readers who enjoy light science fiction. It's not "hall of fame" material, but it's fun.
More great Sci-Fi from Kay Kenyon.......2003-10-03
Interesting concept, well-developed characters and Kenyon's flowing style combine for a great read. Highly recommended.
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A641423. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The purpose of this thesis is to provide Air Combat Command a method for determining the number of predator unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) required to cover a pre-selected target. Extending previous research that employs reactive TABU search methods for deterministic vehicle routing problems, this thesis incorporates wind effects that can significantly alter the travel times for any given scenario. Additionally, it accounts for possible attrition by introducing minimum risk route and expected number of target covered to the objective function. The results of the TABU search and subsequent Monte-Carlo simulation: gives the number of predator's required to cover a target set, identifies 'robust' routes, and suggests routes that increase expected number of targets covered while reducing losses.
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This digital document is a journal article from Quaternary Science Reviews, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Geomorphological descriptions of changes in the extent of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) have been combined with glacial-isostatic-adjustment models to reproduce the sea-level history of Greenland since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The contribution to past sea-level change around Greenland due to ice-load changes outside of that region has been considerable (+/- 10's of meters), while still contributing a rise of several mmyr^-^1 today. The isostatic contribution to relative sea level around Greenland from changes in the GIS is found by iteratively perturbing preliminary ice models with different LGM extents and deglaciation starting times. The resulting first-order model that provides the best agreement between observed and predicted sea level contributes 3.1 and 1.9m water-equivalent of additional ice relative to present-day ice volumes at the LGM and Younger Dryas, respectively. The GIS in most areas does not appear to have extended far onto the continental shelf, the exceptions being southern-most Southwest Greenland and northern East Greenland, as well as at the coalescence of the Northwest Greenland and Innuitian Ice Sheets. Changes in ice thickness since the LGM were >500m along the present-day outer coast and >1500m along some parts of the present-day ice margin. The observed mid- to late-Holocene fall in sea level to below the present-day level and the subsequent transgression seen in some areas implies that the GIS retreated behind the present-day margin by distances of the order of 40km before readvancing.
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Fundamental characteristics of the climate system during the most recent precessional cycle of the Earth's orbit around the Sun consist of the final expansion of land ice to its maximum extent, the subsequent episode of deglaciation, and the variations of global sea level that accompanied these events. In order to address the important issue of the variation of continental ice volume and related changes in global sea level through the late glacial period, we employ an extended set of observations of the pre-glacial and postglacial history of sea-level rise at the island of Barbados, together with a refined model of continental deglaciation and an accurate methodology for the prediction of postglacial sea-level change. Although our results provide unambiguous evidence that the post LGM rise of eustatic sea-level was very close to the widely supported estimate of 120m, the data also provide evidence that LGM must have occurred 26,000 years ago, approximately 5000yr earlier than the usually assumed age.
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Late Quaternary vegetation, fire and climate dynamics have been studied based on high-resolution dated pollen and charcoal samples and multivariate data analysis. The samples were taken from a 212-cm-long sediment core of a bog in the Cambara do Sul region on the highlands of northeastern Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. The records, including seven AMS radiocarbon dates, span 42@?840 ^1^4C years, for the first time extending the reconstruction of past environmental changes on the southern Brazilian highlands back to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and pre-LGM times. The last 1100 years provide a decadal resolution. Initially the site was a permanent shallow lake which became seasonally dry after 26@?900 ^1^4C yr BP. Seasonal climate with a long annual dry period prevailed until the late Holocene. The climate was somewhat wetter from 42@?840 to 41@?470 ^1^4C yr BP and from 41@?470 to 26@?900 ^1^4C yr BP than during the LGM and the late-Glacial period. Natural fires were rare, but became very frequent after 7400 cal BP, suggesting human occupation of the southernmost Brazilian highlands since that time. The records suggest that a species-rich Campos (grassland) vegetation existed in the area under a relatively dry and cold climate during glacial times under possibly as low as -10^oC. The record also suggests that small populations of Araucaria were probably only present in refugia of deep and protected valleys and/or on wetter coastal slopes. Campos vegetation existed through the early and mid-Holocene until 4320 cal yr BP, after which Araucaria forest expanded into the network of gallery forests along the streams. By 1100 cal yr BP the Araucaria forest replaced the Campos vegetation reflecting the onset of the wettest period with no marked annual dry season. The marked expansion of the Araucaria forest coincided with the reduction in fire. Between AD 1520 and 1770 Weinmannia became a common taxa in the Araucaria forest, suggesting a shift to warmer climatic conditions on the highlands. This interval was synchronous with a cool phase within the Little Ice Age known from North Atlantic land records. After about AD 1780 human activities changed the original forest composition, first by introducing cattle into the forest and than by selective logging of Araucaria trees. Multivariate analysis of the pollen data shows compositional changes that follow a trajectory alternating undirectional, random phases and phases with directional, sometimes fast transitions. The results also show that compositional changes in the vegetation are slower during cool periods (LGM compared to pre-LGM) and faster in warm periods (Holocene).
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New field data demonstrate that during the Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) glaciation, an ice sheet expanding northwestwards over the Anti-Atlas range reached into the southern Meseta of northern Morocco. Its growth to a glacial maximum position resulted in extensive subglacial erosion and deformation including the development of soft-sediment striated surfaces and streamlined subglacial bedforms preserved between the High Atlas of Marrakech and Rehamna. These features imply that this ice mass extended >200 km further than previously thought, and increase its size by at least ca. 190, 000 km^2 (comparable in area to the UK). Correlation between a measured section in the High Atlas of Marrakech and that of the southern Meseta identifies sedimentary evolution within an ice-contact system common to both. These findings imply that the West African Craton and northern Morocco were in full glaciological communication during the latest Ordovician. Palaeogeographic reconstruction shows that beyond the ice sheet, south and southeastward palaeoslopes persisted on the shelf. A palaeohigh beyond the main ice sheet was a major source for sand, feeding delta systems that grew along the shelf as far as the shelf break. This palaeohigh probably formed as a result of rift shoulder uplift and supported a satellite ice mass. In the eastern Meseta, a thick (350 m) underflow-dominated deep-marine fan was fed both from this shelf delta system and from glaciogenic debris derived from the main ice sheet. The occurrence of this unexpected deep-marine area in northern Morocco implies that continued northward advance of the ice sheet was hampered by a dramatic break in bathymetry. Two depositional units are recognised across the Meseta, containing four distinct sedimentary cycles, each recognised as a glacioeustatic response to the waxing and waning of ice masses elsewhere in West Gondwana.
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We model iceberg flow paths from the Eurasian Ice Sheet, and the associated meltwater production and sedimentation rates within the Norwegian-Greenland Sea during the last glaciation. Results from a numerical ice sheet model, an atmospheric general circulation model and an ocean general circulation model are collated and used to provide iceberg production rate, wind field and surface current forcings to an iceberg trajectory model. The iceberg model then determines how icebergs issuing from the Eurasian Ice Sheet travel across the ocean and eventually melt. In addition the release of iceberg sediments is also predicted. The results show that iceberg trajectories are complex and that common features of iceberg movement are clustering in zones of convergence and exit into the North Atlantic through the Iceland-Faeroes Channel. Eurasian icebergs do not penetrate into the interior of the Arctic Ocean. The gathering of icebergs produces a complex meltwater pattern that does not follow the conceptual idea of decreasing meltwater production with distance from the ice sheet margin. Sedimentation results are compared with the meltwater configuration and are found to be a poor indicator of past zones of iceberg melt, with zones of sedimentation extending significantly less far.
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A three-dimensional thermomechanical model is used to investigate the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) Icelandic ice sheet and the climate responsible for it at ~21kaBP. A series of sensitivity experiments reveal that Iceland is susceptible to the onset large-scale glaciation with only a 3^oC cooling perturbation relative to recent (1961-1990) climate. A 5^oC cooling perturbation is enough to force an ice sheet to beyond the present day coastline in virtually all sectors. A suite of 15 experiments driven by a GRIP @dO18 time-series for 15,000 years from a climatic optimum at 36ka to 21kaBP scaled with 5.0-15.0^oC maximum cooling perturbation are initiated in order to identify a best-fit LGM ice sheet configuration compatible with the available empirical evidence. The optimum LGM model isolated requires an annual cooling of 10.0-12.5^oC relative to the recent climatology with over 50% precipitation suppression across the north and yields an extensive offshore ice sheet with an area of 3.29x10^5km^2 and a volume of 3.09x10^5km^3. Over-extension of ice extent across the northern shelf is addressed by the introduction of strong aridity across this region but otherwise the ice-sheet is well pinned to the continental shelf-break in remaining sectors which tends to decouple it from further climatic forcing. The optimum LGM ice-sheet has a substantial proportion of its base grounded below sea-level and is dominated by basal sliding which activates extensive zones of fast flow. This results in a highly dynamic, low aspect ice sheet with a mean ice thickness of 940m and a plateau elevation of ~2000m breached by numerous nunataks and ice-free zones providing potential, but spatially limited and frigid, ecological refugia through the vicissitudes of the LGM.
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Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of large-scale atmospheric circulation on the maximum ice extent (MIE) over the Baltic Sea. The main objective of this study is to gain some understanding of the scale-dependent variability of the MIE in relation to the large-scale atmospheric circulation. Wavelet analysis was applied to the observed and modelled MIE observation to identify the association between them as a function of time scale. The model used is a statistical model linking a set of indices describing the large-scale atmospheric circulation and the MIE. The analysis enables verification of the statistical model regarding its ability to reproduce variability at various time scales. The analysis shows that for the both variables, the amplitudes and frequencies of the variations on all scales vary with time. The correlation between the MIE and the atmospheric circulation is strongest at the longer time scales (>64 years) and weakest at the time scale of 32 years. The correlation at the interannual and decadal scales lies in between and is fairly strong. Further, the linkage on all time scales becomes stronger after 1940.
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