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... are correct, and an increased role by the ocean in poleward heat transport is required to achieve cooler tropical temperatures, then this problem is explained by the lack of an explicit ocean formulation in current atmospheric climate models. At present, the debate over tropical cooler temperatures cannot be addressed explicitly by current climate models.
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  • middle miocene
  • tropical temperature
  • tropical temperatures
  • oxygen isotopic


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