Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1391-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1391-2018
Research article
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04 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 04 Oct 2018

Temperature seasonality in the North American continental interior during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

Ethan G. Hyland, Katharine W. Huntington, Nathan D. Sheldon, and Tammo Reichgelt

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Climate equability is a paradox in paleoclimate research, but modeling suggests that strong seasonality should be a feature of greenhouse Earth periods too. Records of temperature from floral assemblages, paleosol geochemistry, clumped isotope thermometry, and downscaled models during the early Eocene show that the mean annual range of temperature was high, and may have increased during warming events. This has implications for predicting future seasonal climate impacts in continental regions.