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 …

Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates

J Studholme, AV Fedorov, SK Gulev, K Emanuel… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Tropical cyclones (TCs, also known as hurricanes and typhoons) generally form at low
latitudes with access to the warm waters of the tropical oceans, but far enough off the …

Global and regional temperature change over the past 4.5 million years

PU Clark, JD Shakun, Y Rosenthal, P Köhler… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Much of our understanding of Cenozoic climate is based on the record of δ18O measured in
benthic foraminifera. However, this measurement reflects a combined signal of global …

Migrations and dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone

T Schneider, T Bischoff, GH Haug - nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
Rainfall on Earth is most intense in the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), a narrow belt
of clouds centred on average around six degrees north of the Equator. The mean position of …

Cenozoic history of the Indonesian Gateway

SJ Gallagher, G Auer, CM Brierley… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
The tectonically complex Indonesian Gateway is part of the global thermohaline circulation
and exerts a major control on climate. Waters from the Pacific flow through the Indonesian …

Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon

AE Holbourn, W Kuhnt, SC Clemens… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
The late Miocene offers the opportunity to assess the sensitivity of the Earth's climate to
orbital forcing and to changing boundary conditions, such as ice volume and greenhouse …

[HTML][HTML] The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity

AM Haywood, JC Tindall, HJ Dowsett… - Climate of the …, 2020‏ - cp.copernicus.org
The Pliocene epoch has great potential to improve our understanding of the long-term
climatic and environmental consequences of an atmospheric CO 2 concentration near∼ …

Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

MA Martínez-Botí, GL Foster, TB Chalk, EJ Rohling… - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Abstract Theory and climate modelling suggest that the sensitivity of Earth's climate to
changes in radiative forcing could depend on the background climate. However …

[HTML][HTML] East African climate pulses and early human evolution

MA Maslin, CM Brierley, AM Milner, S Shultz… - Quaternary Science …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Current evidence suggests that all of the major events in hominin evolution have occurred in
East Africa. Over the last two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …

Constraints on global mean sea level during Pliocene warmth

OA Dumitru, J Austermann, VJ Polyak, JJ Fornós… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
Reconstructing the evolution of sea level during past warmer epochs such as the Pliocene
provides insight into the response of sea level and ice sheets to prolonged warming …