Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present

J Zachos, M Pagani, L Sloan, E Thomas, K Billups - science, 2001 - science.org
Since 65 million years ago (Ma), Earth's climate has undergone a significant and complex
evolution, the finer details of which are now coming to light through investigations of deep …

The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges

M Vernet, W Geibert, M Hoppema… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Weddell Gyre (WG) is one of the main oceanographic features of the Southern
Ocean south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which plays an influential role in global …

Palaeoclimate

E Jansen, J Overpeck, KR Briffa, JC Duplessy… - Contribution of Working …, 2007 - hal.science
• The sustained rate of increase over the past century in the combined radiative forcing from
the three well-mixed greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous …

Evolution of early Cenozoic marine temperatures

JC Zachos, LD Stott, KC Lohmann - Paleoceanography, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The equator to high southern latitude sea surface and vertical temperature gradients are
reconstructed from oxygen isotope values of planktonic and benthic foraminifers for the …

High‐resolution (104 years) deep‐sea foraminiferal stable isotope records of the Eocene‐Oligocene climate transition

JC Zachos, TM Quinn, KA Salamy - Paleoceanography, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
We have constructed high‐resolution (104–105 years) benthic foraminiferal δ13C and δ18O
records for the upper Eocene through lower Oligocene of two pelagic sequences, Deep Sea …

Evolution of Cenozoic seaways in the circum-Antarctic region

LA Lawver, LM Gahagan - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2003 - Elsevier
A complete circum-Antarctic seaway did not open until both the South Tasman Rise cleared
the Oates Land coast of East Antarctica and Drake Passage opened between the southern …

Late Cretaceous–Neogene trends in deep ocean temperature and continental ice volume: Reconciling records of benthic foraminiferal geochemistry (δ18O and Mg …

BS Cramer, KG Miller, PJ Barrett… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We reconstruct trends in ice volume and deep ocean temperature for the past 108 Myr,
resolving variations on timescales of∼ 2 Myr and longer. We use a sea level record as a …

Abrupt climate change and transient climates during the Paleogene: A marine perspective

JC Zachos, KC Lohmann, JCG Walker… - The Journal of …, 1993 - journals.uchicago.edu
Detailed investigations of high latitude sequences recently collected by the Ocean Drilling
Program (ODP) indicate that periods of rapid climate change often culminated in brief …

The role of carbon dioxide during the onset of Antarctic glaciation

M Pagani, M Huber, Z Liu, SM Bohaty, J Henderiks… - science, 2011 - science.org
Earth's modern climate, characterized by polar ice sheets and large equator-to-pole
temperature gradients, is rooted in environmental changes that promoted Antarctic …

Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling

R McKay, T Naish, L Carter… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The influence of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean on Late Pliocene global climate
reconstructions has remained ambiguous due to a lack of well-dated Antarctic-proximal …