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Temperature seasonality in the North American continental interior during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum
Department of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Department of Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Katharine W. Huntington
Department of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Nathan D. Sheldon
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Tammo Reichgelt
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades,
NY 10964, USA
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Short summary
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.
Climate equability is a paradox in paleoclimate research, but modeling suggests that strong...
