Tropical cooling and the onset of North American glaciation
We offer a test of the idea that gradual cooling in the eastern tropical Pacific led to cooling of North America and the initiation of glaciation ~3 Myr ago. Using modern climate data we estimate how warming of the eastern tropical Pacific affects North American temperature and ice-ablation. Ass...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2007-09-01
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| Series: | Climate of the Past |
| Online Access: | http://www.clim-past.net/3/549/2007/cp-3-549-2007.pdf |