Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum

MB Osman, JE Tierney, J Zhu, R Tardif, GJ Hakim… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Climate changes across the past 24,000 years provide key insights into Earth system
responses to external forcing. Climate model simulations, and proxy data,,,,–have …

Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited

JE Tierney, J Zhu, J King, SB Malevich, GJ Hakim… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), one of the best studied palaeoclimatic intervals,
offers an excellent opportunity to investigate how the climate system responds to changes in …

Water isotopes, climate variability, and the hydrological cycle: recent advances and new frontiers

S Dee, A Bailey, JL Conroy, A Atwood… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The hydrologic cycle is a fundamental component of the climate system with critical societal
and ecological relevance. Yet gaps persist in our understanding of water fluxes and their …

A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, DJ Lunt, IP Montañez, BT Huber… - science, 2024 - science.org
A long-term record of global mean surface temperature (GMST) provides critical insight into
the dynamical limits of Earth's climate and the complex feedbacks between temperature and …

Thresholds of temperature change for mass extinctions

H Song, DB Kemp, L Tian, D Chu, H Song… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change is a critical factor affecting biodiversity. However, the quantitative
relationship between temperature change and extinction is unclear. Here, we analyze …

[HTML][HTML] A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

D Kaufman, N McKay, C Routson, M Erb, B Davis… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into
the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of …

The PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3-CMIP5 simulations

M Kageyama, SP Harrison, ML Kapsch… - Climate of the Past …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM,~ 21,000 years ago) has been a major focus for evaluating
how well state-of-the-art climate models simulate climate changes as large as those …

Complex spatio-temporal structure of the Holocene Thermal Maximum

O Cartapanis, L Jonkers, P Moffa-Sanchez… - nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inconsistencies between Holocene climate reconstructions and numerical model
simulations question the robustness of climate models and proxy temperature records …

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 …

Bayesian calibration of the Mg/Ca paleothermometer in planktic foraminifera

JE Tierney, SB Malevich, W Gray… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mg/Ca ratio of planktic foraminifera is a widely used proxy for sea‐surface
temperature but is also sensitive to other environmental factors. Previous work has relied on …