On the Relationship between Latitude and Altitude Temperature Effects

Natural laws can only be recognized in the dynamic processes. Here we present the relationship between latitude and altitude temperature effects under the unprecedented global warming, using the 160-station observed meteorological data. We find that there are very distinctive seasonal differences in latitude and altitude effects: a very significant latitude effect in winter and a very significant altitude effect in summer. However, with global warming underway, the latitude effect of winter is weakening and the altitude effect in summer is strengthening. It seems that there exists a seesaw-relationship between latitude and altitude temperature effects with global temperature change: when the global temperature rises, the latitude effect will weaken and the altitude effect will strengthen, and vice versa. The relationship between latitude effect and altitude effect is helpful to reconstruct and explain the ancient temperature structure in different temperature conditions.