A new record of past temperature change in the tropical
Atlantic Ocean's subsurface provides clues as to why the Earth's climate is so
sensitive to ocean circulation patterns, according to climate scientists at
Texas A&M University.
Geological oceanographer Matthew Schmidt and two of his
graduate students teamed up with Ping Chang, a physical oceanographer and
climate modeler, to help uncover an important climate connection between the
tropics and the high latitude North Atlantic. Their new findings are in the
current issue of PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).