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 …

Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

CR Stokes, NJ Abram, MJ Bentley, TL Edwards… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth's glacier ice (about
52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon

AE Holbourn, W Kuhnt, SC Clemens… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The late Miocene offers the opportunity to assess the sensitivity of the Earth's climate to
orbital forcing and to changing boundary conditions, such as ice volume and greenhouse …

Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma

TD Herbert, CA Dalton, Z Liu, A Salazar, W Si… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO) from~ 17 to 14 million years ago (Ma) represents an
enigmatic reversal in Cenozoic cooling. A synthesis of marine paleotemperature records …

Simulating miocene warmth: insights from an opportunistic multi‐model ensemble (MioMIP1)

NJ Burls, CD Bradshaw, AM De Boer… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch, spanning 23.03–5.33 Ma, was a dynamic climate of sustained,
polar amplified warmth. Miocene atmospheric CO2 concentrations are typically …

Dynamic Antarctic ice sheet during the early to mid-Miocene

E Gasson, RM DeConto, D Pollard… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Geological data indicate that there were major variations in Antarctic ice sheet volume and
extent during the early to mid-Miocene. Simulating such large-scale changes is problematic …

Coupled influence of tectonics, climate, and surface processes on landscape evolution in southwestern North America

A Bahadori, WE Holt, R Feng, J Austermann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Cenozoic landscape evolution in southwestern North America is ascribed to crustal
isostasy, dynamic topography, or lithosphere tectonics, but their relative contributions remain …

An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

SSR Jamieson, N Ross, GJG Paxman, FJ Clubb… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) has its origins ca. 34 million years ago. Since
then, the impact of climate change and past fluctuations in the EAIS margin has been …

Middle Miocene long-term continental temperature change in and out of pace with marine climate records

K Methner, M Campani, J Fiebig, N Löffler, O Kempf… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Reconstructing long-term continental temperature change provides the required counterpart
to age equivalent marine records and can reveal how terrestrial and marine temperatures …