Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley Circulation in the Early Pliocene
Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley Circulation in the Early Pliocene
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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The Pliocene warm interval has been difficult to explain. We reconstructed the latitudinal distribution of sea surface temperature around 4 million years ago, during the early Pliocene. Our reconstruction shows that the meridional temperature gradient between the equator and subtropics was greatly reduced, implying a vast poleward expansion of the...
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Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley Circulation in the Early Pliocene
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743225028
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743225028
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0036-8075
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1095-9203
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10.1126/science.1167625
