Changing El Niño–Southern oscillation in a warming climate

W Cai, A Santoso, M Collins, B Dewitte… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Originating in the equatorial Pacific, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has highly
consequential global impacts, motivating the need to understand its responses to …

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 …

Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth

AV Fedorov, CM Brierley, KT Lawrence, Z Liu… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
About five to four million years ago, in the early Pliocene epoch, Earth had a warm,
temperate climate. The gradual cooling that followed led to the establishment of modern …

Atmospheric CO2 decline during the Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciations

G Bartoli, B Hönisch, RE Zeebe - Paleoceanography, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the onset of intensive glaciations on
Greenland, Scandinavia, and North America during the Pliocene epoch between 3.6 and 2.7 …

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 …

Late Miocene decoupling of oceanic warmth and atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing

JP LaRiviere, AC Ravelo, A Crimmins, PS Dekens… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Deep-time palaeoclimate studies are vitally important for developing a complete
understanding of climate responses to changes in the atmospheric carbon dioxide …

Climate evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

EL McClymont, SL Ho, HL Ford, I Bailey… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …

Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago

EL McClymont, HL Ford, SL Ho… - Climate of the Past …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
A range of future climate scenarios are projected for high atmospheric CO 2 concentrations,
given uncertainties over future human actions as well as potential environmental and …

North Atlantic climate evolution through the Plio-Pleistocene climate transitions

KT Lawrence, S Sosdian, HE White… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
During the Plio-Pleistocene, the Earth witnessed the growth of large northern hemisphere
ice sheets and profound changes in both North Atlantic and global climate. Here, we present …

Pliocene oceanic seaways and global climate

C Karas, D Nürnberg, A Bahr, J Groeneveld… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Tectonically induced changes in oceanic seaways had profound effects on global and
regional climate during the Late Neogene. The constriction of the Central American Seaway …