Pronounced zonal heterogeneity in Eocene southern high-latitude sea surface temperatures:

• Main Authors: Douglas, P.M.J., Affek, H.P., Ivany, L.C., Houben, A.J.P., Sijp, W.P., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Pagani, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2014
• Subjects: Geosciences; Climate modeling; Clumped isotopes; High-latitude climate; Organic geochemistry; Paleooceanography; Calcium carbonate; Strontium; Antarctica; Benthic foraminifera; Eocene; Geochemistry; Latitude; Nonhuman; Paleoclimate; sea surface temperature; Sediment; Simulation; Thermohaline circulation; Geological Survey Netherlands; Energy / Geological Survey Netherlands; Earth / Environmental; PG - Petroleum Geosciences; ELSS - Earth; Life and Social Sciences; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Pacific; Ross Sea; Seymour; Seymour Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:163ff425-cac9-4304-b3c7-d5b8c0be3e1e

Paleoclimate studies suggest that increased global warmth during the Eocene epoch was greatly amplified at high latitudes, a state that climate models cannot fully reproduce. However, proxy estimates of Eocene near-Antarctic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have produced widely divergent results at s...