The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity

R Knutti, MAA Rugenstein, GC Hegerl - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Equilibrium climate sensitivity characterizes the Earth's long-term global temperature
response to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. It has reached almost iconic status …

Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

MA Martínez-Botí, GL Foster, TB Chalk, EJ Rohling… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Theory and climate modelling suggest that the sensitivity of Earth's climate to
changes in radiative forcing could depend on the background climate. However …

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 C anthropogenic warming and beyond

H Fischer, KJ Meissner, AC Mix, NJ Abram… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past 3.5 million years, there have been several intervals when climate conditions
were warmer than during the pre-industrial Holocene. Although past intervals of warming …

[HTML][HTML] The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity

AM Haywood, JC Tindall, HJ Dowsett… - Climate of the …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
The Pliocene epoch has great potential to improve our understanding of the long-term
climatic and environmental consequences of an atmospheric CO 2 concentration near∼ …

[HTML][HTML] The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6–Part 1: Overview and over-arching analysis plan

M Kageyama, P Braconnot, SP Harrison… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper is the first of a series of four GMD papers on the PMIP4-CMIP6 experiments. Part
2 (Otto-Bliesner et al., 2017) gives details about the two PMIP4-CMIP6 interglacial …

The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) paleoenvironmental reconstruction

H Dowsett, A Dolan, D Rowley, R Moucha… - Climate of the …, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
The mid-Piacenzian is known as a period of relative warmth when compared to the present
day. A comprehensive understanding of conditions during the Piacenzian serves as both a …

The latitudinal temperature gradient and its climate dependence as inferred from foraminiferal δ18O over the past 95 million years

DE Gaskell, M Huber, CL O'Brien… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The latitudinal temperature gradient is a fundamental state parameter of the climate system
tied to the dynamics of heat transport and radiative transfer. Thus, it is a primary target for …

Large-scale features of Pliocene climate: results from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project

AM Haywood, DJ Hill, AM Dolan… - Climate of the …, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
Climate and environments of the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.264 to 3.025 Ma) have been
extensively studied. Whilst numerical models have shed light on the nature of climate at the …

A global synthesis of the marine and terrestrial evidence for glaciation during the Pliocene Epoch

S De Schepper, PL Gibbard, U Salzmann… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The Pliocene climate is globally warm and characterised by high atmospheric carbon
dioxide concentrations, yet the terrestrial and marine scientific communities have gathered …