Hydrologic Impacts of Past Shifts of Earth’s Thermal Equator Offer Insight into Those to be Produced by Fossil Fuel CO2 ...

• Main Authors: Broecker, Wallace S., Putnam, Aaron Ervin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2014
• Subjects: Atmosphere; Meteorology; Paleoclimatology; Kya; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8v122rk; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8V122RK

Major changes in global rainfall patterns accompanied a northward shift of Earth’s thermal equator at the onset of an abrupt climate change 14.6 kya. This northward pull of Earth’s wind and rain belts stemmed from disintegration of North Atlantic winter sea ice cover, which steepened the interhemisp...