@article{discovery10184562,
           title = {Surface Ocean Cooling in the Eocene North Atlantic Coincides
With Declining Atmospheric CO2},
            year = {2023},
          number = {24},
         journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
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       publisher = {American Geophysical Union (AGU)},
           month = {December},
          volume = {50},
          author = {Inglis, Gordon N and Bhatia, Rehemat and Evans, David and Zhu, Jiang and M{\"u}ller, Wolfgang and Mattey, David and Thornalley, David JR and Stockey, Richard G and Wade, Bridget S},
             url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023gl105448},
        abstract = {The Eocene (56-34 million years ago) is characterized by declining sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the low latitudes ({$\sim$}4oC) and high southern latitudes ({$\sim$}8-11oC), in accord with decreasing CO2 estimates. However, in the mid-to-high northern latitudes there is no evidence for surface water cooling, suggesting thermal decoupling between northern and southern hemispheres and additional non-CO2 controls. To explore this further, we present a multi-proxy (Mg/Ca, {\ensuremath{\delta}}18O, TEX86) SST record from Bass River in the western North Atlantic. Our compiled multi-proxy SST record confirms a net decline in SSTs ({$\sim$}4oC) between the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (53.3-49.1�Ma) and mid-Eocene ({$\sim$}44-41�Ma), supporting declining atmospheric CO2 as the primary mechanism of Eocene cooling. However, from the mid-Eocene onwards, east-west North Atlantic temperature gradients exhibit different trends, which we attribute to incursion of warmer waters into the eastern North Atlantic and inception of Northern Component Water across the early-middle Eocene transition.},
        keywords = {Cenozoic temperature, multi-proxy, North Atlantic eocene, foraminifera}
}