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 …

The opening and closure of oceanic seaways during the Cenozoic: pacemaker of global climate change?

A Bahr, S Kaboth-Bahr, C Karas - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The opening and constriction of oceanic gateways played an essential role in shaping the
global climate throughout Earth's history. In this review, we provide an overview of the best …

The transition on North America from the warm humid Pliocene to the glaciated Quaternary traced by eolian dust deposition at a benchmark North Atlantic Ocean drill …

DC Lang, I Bailey, PA Wilson, CJ Beer… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract We present Plio-Pleistocene records of sediment color,% CaCO 3, foraminifer
fragmentation, benthic carbon isotopes (δ 13 C) and radiogenic isotopes (Sr, Nd, Pb) of the …

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 …

Eastern equatorial Pacific cold tongue evolution since the late Miocene linked to extratropical climate

J Liu, J Tian, Z Liu, TD Herbert, AV Fedorov, M Lyle - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
The timing and mechanisms of the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) cold tongue
development, a salient feature of the tropical ocean, are intensely debated on geological …

Past terrestrial hydroclimate sensitivity controlled by Earth system feedbacks

R Feng, T Bhattacharya, BL Otto-Bliesner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite tectonic conditions and atmospheric CO 2 levels (pCO 2) similar to those of present-
day, geological reconstructions from the mid-Pliocene (3.3-3.0 Ma) document high lake …

[图书][B] Climate change: the science of global warming and our energy future

E Mathez, J Smerdon - 2018 - degruyter.com
376• THE FUTURE chance of exceeding the oft-cited goal of limiting global temperature rise
to no more than 2 C (3.6 F) above preindustrial levels is somewhere between 20 and 60 …

Pliocene decoupling of equatorial Pacific temperature and pH gradients

MG Shankle, NJ Burls, AV Fedorov, MD Thomas, W Liu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Ocean dynamics in the equatorial Pacific drive tropical climate patterns that affect marine
and terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. How this region will respond to global warming has …

The evolution of the equatorial thermocline and the early Pliocene El Padre mean state

HL Ford, AC Ravelo, PS Dekens… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The tropical Pacific thermocline strength, depth, and tilt are critical to tropical mean state and
variability. During the early Pliocene (~ 3.5 to 4.5 Ma), the Eastern Equatorial Pacific (EEP) …

A diatom record of CO2 decline since the late Miocene

LM Mejía, A Méndez-Vicente, L Abrevaya… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Extratropical sea surface temperature records from alkenones record a dramatic cooling of
up to 17° C over the last∼ 14 Ma, but the relationship between this cooling and greenhouse …