Modeling Past Hothouse Climates as a Means for Assessing Earth System Models and Improving the Understanding of Warm Climates

J Zhu, CJ Poulsen… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Simulating the warmth and equability of past hothouse climates has been a challenge since
the inception of paleoclimate modeling. The newest generation of Earth system models …

Global and zonal‐mean hydrological response to early Eocene warmth

MJ Cramwinckel, NJ Burls, AA Fahad… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's hydrological cycle is expected to intensify in response to global warming, with a “wet‐
gets‐wetter, dry‐gets‐drier” response anticipated over the ocean. Subtropical regions (∼ …

Global vegetation zonation and terrestrial climate of the warm Early Eocene

N Thompson, U Salzmann, DK Hutchinson… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The early Eocene is a key geological time interval to further our understanding of climate
change and biosphere variability under high atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of more than …

DeepMIP-Eocene-p1: multi-model dataset and interactive web application for Eocene climate research

S Steinig, A Abe-Ouchi, AM de Boer, WL Chan… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Paleoclimate model simulations provide reference data to help interpret the geological
record and offer a unique opportunity to evaluate the performance of current models under …

Paleobotanical evidence for Mediterranean climates in the western Canadian paleoarctic during the late middle Eocene

CK West, T Reichgelt, AV Reyes… - Paleoceanography …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Paleogene age deposits east of the Fifteenmile River, northwest of Dawson City, Yukon,
Canada preserve a diverse high‐latitude fossil flora. Here, we provide new data on the age …

High productivity at high latitudes? photosynthesis and leaf ecophysiology in Arctic forests of the Eocene

W Konrad, A Roth‐Nebelsick… - Paleoceanography and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic forests of the Eocene, which thrived under elevated CO2, a temperate climate,
high precipitation and annually extremely different daylengths, represent a quite spectacular …

African hydroclimate during the early Eocene from the DeepMIP simulations

CJR Williams, DJ Lunt, U Salzmann… - Paleoceanography …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The early Eocene (∼ 56–48 Myr ago) is characterized by high CO2 estimates
(1,200–2,500 ppmv) and elevated global temperatures (∼ 10° C–16° C higher than …

Revisiting the geographical extent of exceptional warmth in the Early Paleogene Southern Ocean

J Frieling, SM Bohaty, MJ Cramwinckel… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To assess zonal temperature and biogeographical patterns in the Southern Ocean during
the Paleogene, we present new multi‐proxy air‐and sea‐surface temperature data for the …

Meridional shifts of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies during the early Cenozoic

H Chen, Z Xu, G Bayon, Q Fan… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the crucial role of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) westerlies in modulating modern
and past climate evolution, little is known about their behavior and possible forcing …

Poleward amplification, seasonal rainfall and forest heterogeneity in the Miocene of the eastern USA

T Reichgelt, A Baumgartner, R Feng… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleoclimate reconstructions can provide a window into the environmental conditions in
Earth history when atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were higher than today. In …