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Comparison of terrestrial and marine temperature estimates for the past 135 kyr off southeast Africa: a test for GCM simulations of palaeoclimate

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A combined oxygen isotope, planktonic foraminiferal and pollen record from the southwestern Indian Ocean makes possible a comparison between estimated lowland terrestrial temperatures and isotope and faunal sea surface temperatures. The estimates of land and sea mean temperatures over the past 135 kyr are consistent to within 0.5 °C, and in all three records the maximum temperature changes between glacial and interglacial times are about 3–4 °C.

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  1. Laboratoire de Palynologie, URA 327 du CNRS, Université de Montpellier II, Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, 34095, Montpellier, cedex 5, France

    E. Van Campo

  2. Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, Laboratoire mixte CNRS-CEA, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    J. C. Duplessy

  3. Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 12912, USA

    W. L. Prell & N. Barratt

  4. Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Montpellier I, 34060, Montpellier, cedex 1, France

    R. Sabatier

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Campo, E., Duplessy, J., Prell, W. et al. Comparison of terrestrial and marine temperature estimates for the past 135 kyr off southeast Africa: a test for GCM simulations of palaeoclimate . Nature 348, 209–212 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/348209a0

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