Tropical Indo-Pacific hydroclimate response to North Atlantic forcing during the last deglaciation as recorded by a speleothem from Sumatra, Indonesia

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This research contributes to Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project DP110101161 (led by Michael Gagan, and including Wahyoe Hantoro and NJA). We also thank the Research School of Earth Sciences, ARC Discovery Project DP140102059 (led by NJA) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (CE110001028) for scholarship support awarded to JBW. NJA was supported by an ARC QEII fellowship (DP110101161), SCL by ARC DECRA Fellowship (160100092), and JCH by ARC Future Fellowship (FT130100801). Fieldwork was carried out under RISTEK permit 02/TKPIPA/FRP/SM/II/2012 with the endorsement of Wahyoe Hantoro and the Research Center for Geotechnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). Fieldwork was funded by ARC Discovery Project DP110101161, and we thank Hamdi Rifai, Djupriano Djupri, Engkos Kosasih, Isnally Rifki, Claire Krause, and David Wools-Cobb for fieldwork assistance. We thank Joe Cali, Joan Cowley, Heather Scott-Gagan, Graham Mortimer, Stephen Eggins and Leslie Kinsley for valuable laboratory support of this study. We also thank Allegra LeGrande for her contributions to the GISS ModelE-R VSD analysis; Jodie Bradby and the Research School of Physics and Engineering (ANU) for access to and assistance with Raman spectroscopy; and Silvia Frisia for useful discussions that aided the research. We also thank the two anonymous reviewers whose comments improved this manuscript. The speleothem delta<SUP>18</SUP>O and chronology data reported in this paper for Tangga Cave are archived at NOAA NCEI (https://www.ncdc.noaa.govipaleoistudy/23790).