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The Great Ice Age cycles associated with the variation of the atmospheric heat engine efficiency
Authors:TANG Maocang  GUO Weidong
Affiliation:Lanzhou Institute of Plateau Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Abstract:Investigating all the Great Ice Age events throughout the Earth’s history, each was found to follow a strong mountain-making process. Therefore, a hypothesis was put forward with its causality chain as: strong mountain-making process→great disparity in topography on the Earth surface→introducing efficient atmospheric circulation system (plateau monsoon) →increase in global atmospheric heat engine efficiency → generating more atmospheric kinetic energy → enhancing the planetary westerly (under the condition that the huge relief is longitudinal on the whole)→widening the temperature difference between the equator and the polar regions (restrained by the thermal wind law)→sharp cooling in high latitudes and the polars (supposing the solar radiation was approximately constant)→forming a Great Ice Age event.
Keywords:strong mountain-making process  plateau monsoon  atmospheric heat engine efficiency  the Great Ice Age
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