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 …

Integrating geological archives and climate models for the mid-Pliocene warm period

AM Haywood, HJ Dowsett, AM Dolan - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The mid-Pliocene Warm Period (mPWP) offers an opportunity to understand a
warmer-than-present world and assess the predictive ability of numerical climate models …

[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∼ …

The Pliocene model intercomparison project (PlioMIP) phase 2: scientific objectives and experimental design

AM Haywood, HJ Dowsett, AM Dolan… - Climate of the …, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) is a co-ordinated international
climate modelling initiative to study and understand climate and environments of the Late …

Future vulnerability of marine biodiversity compared with contemporary and past changes

G Beaugrand, M Edwards, V Raybaud… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Many studies have implied significant effects of global climate change on marine life. Setting
these alterations into the context of historical natural change has not been attempted so far …

Sea surface temperature of the mid-Piacenzian ocean: a data-model comparison

HJ Dowsett, KM Foley, DK Stoll, MA Chandler… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
The mid-Piacenzian climate represents the most geologically recent interval of long-term
average warmth relative to the last million years and shares similarities with the climate …

Active Pacific meridional overturning circulation (PMOC) during the warm Pliocene

NJ Burls, AV Fedorov, DM Sigman, SL Jaccard… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
An essential element of modern ocean circulation and climate is the Atlantic meridional
overturning circulation (AMOC), which includes deep-water formation in the subarctic North …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling the enigmatic late Pliocene glacial event—Marine Isotope Stage M2

AM Dolan, AM Haywood, SJ Hunter, JC Tindall… - Global and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (5.2 to 2.58 Ma) has often been targeted to investigate the
nature of warm climates. However, climate records for the Pliocene exhibit significant …

Northern hemisphere glaciation during the globally warm early late Pliocene

S De Schepper, J Groeneveld, BDA Naafs… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The early Late Pliocene (3.6 to∼ 3.0 million years ago) is the last extended interval in
Earth's history when atmospheric CO2 concentrations were comparable to today's and …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of the coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice–vegetation model COSMOS to the PlioMIP2

C Stepanek, E Samakinwa, G Knorr… - Climate of the …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract We present the Alfred Wegener Institute's contribution to the Pliocene Model
Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2) wherein we employ the Community Earth …