Research ArticleCLIMATOLOGY
The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum
- Shannon E. Loomis1,
- James M. Russell1,2,*,
- Dirk Verschuren3,
- Carrie Morrill4,5,
- Gijs De Cort3,6,
- Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté7,8,
- Daniel Olago9,10,
- Hilde Eggermont3,11,
- F. Alayne Street-Perrott12 and
- Meredith 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
