ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
The latitudinal temperature gradient and its climate dependence as inferred from foraminiferal δ
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Abstract
SignificanceThe temperature difference between low and high latitudes is one measure of the efficiency of the global climate system in redistributing heat and is used to test the ability of models to represent the climate system through time. Here, we show that the latitudinal temperature gradient has exhibited a consistent inverse relationship with global mean sea-surface temperature for at least the past 95 million years. Our results help reduce conflicts between climate models and empirical estimates of temperature and argue for a fundamental consistency in the dynamics of heat transport and radiative transfer across vastly different background states.
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