Water isotopes, climate variability, and the hydrological cycle: Recent advances and new frontiers

S Dee, A Bailey, JL Conroy, A Atwood… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The hydrologic cycle is a fundamental component of the climate system with critical societal
and ecological relevance. Yet gaps persist in our understanding of water fluxes and their …

Global and zonal‐mean hydrological response to early Eocene warmth

MJ Cramwinckel, NJ Burls, AA Fahad… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's hydrological cycle is expected to intensify in response to global warming, with a “wet‐
gets‐wetter, dry‐gets‐drier” response anticipated over the ocean. Subtropical regions (∼ …

[HTML][HTML] Pliocene model Intercomparison project phase 3 (PlioMIP3)–Science plan and experimental design

AM Haywood, JC Tindall, LE Burton… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) was initiated in 2008. Over
two phases PlioMIP has helped co-ordinate the experimental design and publication …

Water isotope ratios reflect convection intensity rather than rain type proportions in the pantropics

W Yu, R Guo, LG Thompson, J Zhang, S Lewis… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Against the traditional view, a recently published theory argued that isotope ratios are higher
in convective precipitation but lower in stratiform precipitation and proposed that isotope …

Plio‐pleistocene southwest african hydroclimate modulated by benguela and Indian ocean temperatures

CB Rubbelke, T Bhattacharya, R Feng… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Future projections of southwestern African hydroclimate are highly uncertain. However,
insights from past warm climates, like the Pliocene, can reveal mechanisms of future change …

Ocean drilling makes for more robust climate modelling of the future

DJ Lunt, J Zhu, RA Wood - nature geoscience, 2024 - nature.com
Current and future climate change is a major challenge facing humanity. Robustly
constrained predictions of the impacts of future climate change, for a given scenario of …

A model‐data comparison of the hydrological response to Miocene warmth: Leveraging the MioMIP1 opportunistic multi‐model ensemble

RP Acosta, NJ Burls, MJ Pound… - Paleoceanography …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene (23.03–5.33 Ma) is recognized as a period with close to modern‐day
paleogeography, yet a much warmer climate. With large uncertainties in future hydroclimate …

Impacts of an active Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation on the Pliocene climate and hydrological cycle

M Fu, AV Fedorov - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Geochemical evidence indicates that deep water formed in the North Pacific during the
Pliocene (5.3–2.6 Ma), the most recent geological epoch when atmospheric CO 2 was near …

California margin temperatures modulate regional circulation and extreme summer precipitation in the desert Southwest

T Bhattacharya, R Feng, CR Maupin… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In August 2022, Death Valley, the driest place in North America, experienced record
flooding from summertime rainfall associated with the North American monsoon (NAM) …

Pliocene warmth and patterns of climate change inferred from paleoclimate data assimilation

JE Tierney, J King, MB Osman, JT Abell… - AGU …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
As the last time period when CO 2 CO_2 concentrations were near 400 ppm, the Pliocene
Epoch (5.33–2.58 Ma) is a useful paleoclimate target for understanding future climate …