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Research ArticleCLIMATOLOGY
The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum
- Shannon E. Loomis1,
- View ORCID ProfileJames M. Russell1,2,*,
- Dirk Verschuren3,
- View ORCID ProfileCarrie Morrill4,5,
- Gijs De Cort3,6,
- View ORCID ProfileJaap S. Sinninghe Damsté7,8,
- View ORCID ProfileDaniel Olago9,10,
- Hilde Eggermont3,11,
- View ORCID ProfileF. Alayne Street-Perrott12 and
- View ORCID ProfileMeredith A. Kelly13
- 1Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
- 2Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
- 3Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
- 4Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80305–3328, USA.
- 5National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305–3328 USA.
- 6Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium.
- 7Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands.
- 8Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508 TA Utrecht, Netherlands.
- 9Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197-00100, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 10Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 11Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
- 12College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA32 7QD, UK
- 13Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03750, USA.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Email: james_russell{at}brown.edu
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Science Advances 27 Jan 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 1, e1600815
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600815
Vol. 3, no. 1, e1600815
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600815
Shannon E. Loomis
1Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
James M. Russell
1Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
2Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
Dirk Verschuren
3Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Carrie Morrill
4Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80305–3328, USA.
5National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305–3328 USA.
Gijs De Cort
3Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
6Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium.
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
7Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands.
8Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508 TA Utrecht, Netherlands.
Daniel Olago
9Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197-00100, Nairobi, Kenya.
10Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Hilde Eggermont
3Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
11Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
F. Alayne Street-Perrott
12College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA32 7QD, UK
Meredith A. Kelly
13Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03750, USA.
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