Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

A Dutton, AE Carlson, AJ Long, GA Milne, PU Clark… - science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Although thermal expansion of seawater and melting of mountain glaciers
have dominated global mean sea level (GMSL) rise over the last century, mass loss from the …

Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data

P Braconnot, SP Harrison, M Kageyama… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
There is large uncertainty about the magnitude of warming and how rainfall patterns will
change in response to any given scenario of future changes in atmospheric composition and …

The recent emergence of Arctic amplification

MR England, I Eisenman, NJ Lutsko… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic Amplification is robustly seen in climate model simulations of future warming and in
the paleoclimate record. Here, we focus on the past century of observations. We show that …

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 C anthropogenic warming and beyond

H Fischer, KJ Meissner, AC Mix, NJ Abram… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past 3.5 million years, there have been several intervals when climate conditions
were warmer than during the pre-industrial Holocene. Although past intervals of warming …

Quasiresonant amplification of planetary waves and recent Northern Hemisphere weather extremes

V Petoukhov, S Rahmstorf, S Petri… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
In recent years, the Northern Hemisphere has suffered several devastating regional summer
weather extremes, such as the European heat wave in 2003, the Russian heat wave and the …

2.8 million years of Arctic climate change from Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia

M Melles, J Brigham-Grette, PS Minyuk, NR Nowaczyk… - science, 2012 - science.org
The reliability of Arctic climate predictions is currently hampered by insufficient knowledge of
natural climate variability in the past. A sediment core from Lake El'gygytgyn in northeastern …

The diversification of eastern South American open vegetation biomes: historical biogeography and perspectives

FP Werneck - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract The eastern-central South American open vegetation biomes occur across an
extensive range of environmental conditions and are organized diagonally including three …

The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6–Part 2: Two interglacials, scientific objective and experimental design for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations

BL Otto-Bliesner, P Braconnot… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
Two interglacial epochs are included in the suite of Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison
Project (PMIP4) simulations in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The …

Predicting 21st‐century polar bear habitat distribution from global climate models

GM Durner, DC Douglas, RM Nielson… - Ecological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Projections of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) sea ice habitat distribution in the polar basin
during the 21st century were developed to understand the consequences of anticipated sea …

Possible role of wetlands, permafrost, and methane hydrates in the methane cycle under future climate change: A review

FM O'Connor, O Boucher, N Gedney… - Reviews of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We have reviewed the available scientific literature on how natural sources and the
atmospheric fate of methane may be affected by future climate change. We discuss how …