Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) … - Science, 2023 - science.org
The geological record encodes the relationship between climate and atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) over long and short timescales, as well as potential drivers of evolutionary …

Late Cenozoic cooling restructured global marine plankton communities

A Woodhouse, A Swain, WF Fagan, AJ Fraass… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The geographic ranges of marine organisms, including planktonic foraminifera, diatoms,
dinoflagellates, copepods and fish, are shifting polewards owing to anthropogenic climate …

Intensification of Asian dust storms during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period (3.25–2.96 Ma) documented in a sediment core from the South China Sea

F Süfke, S Kaboth-Bahr, KY Wei, CK Chuang… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dust storms are an important component of the global climate system. At the same time, they
also bear a risk for human health by causing pulmonary diseases. Today, East Asian dust …

[HTML][HTML] Antarctic tip** points triggered by the mid-Pliocene warm climate

J Blasco, I Tabone, D Moreno-Parada… - Climate of the …, 2024 - cp.copernicus.org
Tip** elements, including the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), are Earth system components that
could reach critical thresholds due to anthropogenic emissions. Increasing our …

Orbital-and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variability across the Pliocene–Pleistocene glacial intensification

H Ao, D Liebrand, MJ Dekkers, AP Roberts… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation (iNHG),~ 2.7 million years ago (Ma), led to
establishment of the Pleistocene to present-day bipolar icehouse state. Here we document …

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 …

Atmospheric CO2 Concentration Based on Boron Isotopes Versus Simulations of the Global Carbon Cycle During the Plio‐Pleistocene

P Köhler - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations (pCO2) beyond ice core records have been
reconstructed from δ11B derived from planktic foraminifera found in equatorial sediment …

[HTML][HTML] Late Miocene-early Pliocene hydroclimate evolution of the western Altiplano, northern Chile: Implications for aridification trends under warming climate …

C Mentzer, C Garzione, C Jaramillo, LF Hinojosa… - Global and Planetary …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The Miocene-Pliocene boundary (∼ 5.3 million years ago, Ma) represents a climate
transition, where global warming resulted in a rise in sea surface temperatures from near …

[HTML][HTML] Variations in the biological pump throughout the Miocene: evidence from organic carbon burial in Pacific Ocean sediments

M Lyle, A Olivarez Lyle - Climate of the Past, 2024 - cp.copernicus.org
The biological pump, defined as the marine biological production and sedimentation of
particulate organic carbon (POC), is a fundamental process for fixing atmospheric carbon …

The potential role of insolation in the long-term climate evolution since the early Pleistocene

X Ma, M Yang, Y Sun, H Dang, W Ma, J Tian… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The distribution of insolation over time and space is a significant driver of climate change on
orbital timescales. However, the influence of insolation on long-term climate evolution …