Pliocene climate
Variations in Mediterranean–Atlantic exchange across the late Pliocene climate transition
... The MPWP (3.29–2.97 Ma) has been identified by the United States Geological Survey’s PRISM (Pliocene Re- search, Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping; Dowsett et al., 2010) group as a potential analogue for the ...
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Large-scale features of Pliocene climate: results from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project
... atmosphere–ocean climate models, two versions of Pliocene boundary conditions were provided for both Exper- iment 1 and ...of Pliocene climate from the selection of ei- ther preferred or ...
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Evaluating the dominant components of warming in Pliocene climate simulations
... mid-Pliocene climate forcing in the North- ern Hemisphere midlatitudes are substantially different be- tween the climate models, with the only consistent response being a warming due to increased ...
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Late Miocene–Pliocene climate evolution recorded by the red clay cover on the Xiaoshuizi planation surface, NE Tibetan Plateau
... The Pliocene climate and its driving mechanisms have attracted substantial scientific interest because of their potential as an analog for near-future ...Miocene–early Pliocene cli- mate history of ...
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Sensitivity of Pliocene climate simulations in MRI-CGCM2.3 to respective boundary conditions
... the Pliocene Research Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping (PRISM) for PlioMIP1 (PRISM3D; Dowsett et ...mid- Pliocene climate ...scale climate pattern (Haywood et ...terrestrial climate ...
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Evaluating the dominant components of warming in Pliocene climate simulations
... mid-Pliocene climate forcing in the North- ern Hemisphere midlatitudes are substantially different be- tween the climate models, with the only consistent response being a warming due to increased ...
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Simulating the mid-Pliocene climate with the MIROC general circulation model: experimental design and initial results
... the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) was initiated as part of the more inclusive PMIP whose aim is to encourage a systematic study of state of the art climate models by evaluating their ...
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Mid-Pliocene climate modelled using the UK Hadley Centre Model: PlioMIP Experiments 1 and 2
... both Pliocene and control simulations and the dif- ference between ...the Pliocene and land in the control simulation due to the change in albedo and heat capacity, combined with smaller areas on land where ...
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On the effect of orbital forcing on mid-Pliocene climate, vegetation and ice sheets
... For our analysis we use the Earth system model of inter- mediate complexity CLIMBER-2 (Petoukhov et al., 2000; Ganopolski et al., 2001). CLIMBER-2 includes a 2.5- dimensional statistical-dynamical atmosphere model, a 3- ...
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Evolution of Pliocene climate cyclicity at Hole 806B (5-2 Ma); oxygen isotope record
... It is a history of both a cooling trend, with superimposed ice-volume and climate fluctuations of Milankovitch type, as well as a shift in the pattern of oxygen isotope fluctuations afte[r] ...
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The mid-Pliocene climate simulated by FGOALS-g2
... 405 ppmv in the mid-Pliocene experiment, while other green- house concentrations are identical to the levels in the prein- dustrial simulation. The ocean model was started by adding the temperature anomalies ...
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Modelling mid-Pliocene climate with COSMOS
... the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project ...the Pliocene Research, Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping (PRISM) Project mid-Pliocene reconstruction into model forcing ...mid- Pliocene ...
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On the mechanisms of warming the mid-Pliocene and the inference of a hierarchy of climate sensitivities with relevance to the understanding of climate futures
... in climate models, there is considerable uncertainty within these models with regards to the effects of ...mid-Pliocene climate accu- rately depends in large part on the ability of our climate ...
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Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP): experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 1)
... moister climate than ...wetter Pliocene climate also resulted in the expansion of tropical savannas and woodland in Africa and Australia at the expense of ...
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Mid-Pliocene global climate simulation with MRI-CGCM2.3: set-up and initial results of PlioMIP Experiments 1 and 2
... forcings, Pliocene modelling intercomparison project (PlioMIP) was proposed to assess the reproducibility of global climate models for mPWP cli- mate simulations (Haywood et ...by climate models had ...
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Sensitivity of Pliocene Arctic climate to orbital forcing, atmospheric CO2 and sea ice albedo parameterisation
... Haywood, A. M., Hill, D. J., Dolan, A. M., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Bragg, F. J., Chan, W. L., Chandler, M. A., Contoux, C., Dowsett, H. J., Jost, A., Kamae, Y., Lohmann, G., Lunt, D. J., Abe-Ouchi, A., Pickering, S. J., ...
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Mid-Pliocene East Asian monsoon climate simulated in the PlioMIP
... mid-Pliocene climate of East Asia (focus- ing on China) is investigated from simulations with seven atmosphere-only models and eight coupled atmosphere– ocean ...mid-Pliocene climate in China, ...
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Modelling the mid-Pliocene Warm Period climate with the IPSL coupled model and its atmospheric component LMDZ5A
... mid-Pliocene climate carried out with the atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), and with its atmo- spheric component alone ...
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Interannual climate variability seen in the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project
... early Pliocene, there has been much speculation about Pliocene climate ...later Pliocene has been the coordination of mod- elling efforts through the Pliocene Model Intercomparison ...
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Post-Pliocene establishment of the present monsoonal climate in SW China: evidence from the late Pliocene Longmen megaflora
... monsoonal climate (Kou et ...monsoon climate in deep ...monsoonal climate. The Pliocene is a key period for the global climate change with a transition from the warmer Miocene to the ...
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