[HTML][HTML] Hydrological and associated biogeochemical consequences of rapid global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

MJ Carmichael, GN Inglis, MPS Badger… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) hyperthermal,~ 56 million years
ago (Ma), is the most dramatic example of abrupt Cenozoic global warming. During the …

Flood basalts and mass extinctions

ME Clapham, PR Renne - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Flood basalts were Earth's largest volcanic episodes that, along with related intrusions, were
often emplaced rapidly and coincided with environmental disruption: oceanic anoxic events …

Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene

MJ Cramwinckel, M Huber, IJ Kocken, C Agnini, PK Bijl… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Palaeoclimate reconstructions of periods with warm climates and high atmospheric CO2
concentrations are crucial for developing better projections of future climate change. Deep …

[HTML][HTML] The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: Methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data …

CJ Hollis, T Dunkley Jones… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The early Eocene (56 to 48 million years ago) is inferred to have been the most recent time
that Earth's atmospheric CO 2 concentrations exceeded 1000 ppm. Global mean …

Simulation of Eocene extreme warmth and high climate sensitivity through cloud feedbacks

J Zhu, CJ Poulsen, JE Tierney - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
The Early Eocene, a period of elevated atmospheric CO2 (> 1000 ppmv), is considered an
analog for future climate. Previous modeling attempts have been unable to reproduce major …

Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope-Mg/Ca thermometry

D Evans, N Sagoo, W Renema… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Past greenhouse periods with elevated atmospheric CO2 were characterized by globally
warmer sea-surface temperatures (SST). However, the extent to which the high latitudes …

Extreme warmth and heat-stressed plankton in the tropics during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

J Frieling, H Gebhardt, M Huber, OA Adekeye… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Global ocean temperatures rapidly warmed by~ 5° C during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum (PETM;~ 56 million years ago). Extratropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) met …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature dependency of metabolic rates in the upper ocean: A positive feedback to global climate change?

F Boscolo-Galazzo, KA Crichton, S Barker… - Global and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The temperature of seawater can affect marine plankton in various ways, including by
affecting rates of metabolic processes. This can change the way carbon and nutrients are …

Ecological response of plankton to environmental change: thresholds for extinction

CM Lowery, PR Bown, AJ Fraass… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Severe climatic and environmental changes are far more prevalent in Earth history than
major extinction events, and the relationship between environmental change and extinction …

An early Cambrian greenhouse climate

TW Hearing, THP Harvey, M Williams, MJ Leng… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The oceans of the early Cambrian (~ 541 to 509 million years ago) were the setting for a
marked diversification of animal life. However, sea temperatures—a key component of the …