Past climates inform our future

JE Tierney, CJ Poulsen, IP Montañez, T Bhattacharya… - science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Anthropogenic emissions are rapidly altering Earth's climate, pushing it
toward a warmer state for which there is no historical precedent. Although no perfect analog …

Triple oxygen isotopes in the water cycle

PG Aron, NE Levin, EJ Beverly, TE Huth, BH Passey… - Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen a remarkable expansion of studies that use mass-dependent
variations of triple oxygen isotopes (16 O, 17 O, 18 O) in isotope hydrology and isotope …

Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum

MB Osman, JE Tierney, J Zhu, R Tardif, GJ Hakim… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Climate changes across the past 24,000 years provide key insights into Earth system
responses to external forcing. Climate model simulations, and proxy data,,,,–have …

Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited

JE Tierney, J Zhu, J King, SB Malevich, GJ Hakim… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), one of the best studied palaeoclimatic intervals,
offers an excellent opportunity to investigate how the climate system responds to changes in …

Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean–continent moisture transport

Z Jian, Y Wang, H Dang, M Mohtadi, Y Rosenthal… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) exerts a dominant role in global climate by
releasing huge amounts of water vapour and latent heat to the atmosphere and modulating …

Spatial patterns of climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

JE Tierney, J Zhu, M Li, A Ridgwell… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM; 56 Ma) is one of our best geological
analogs for understanding climate dynamics in a “greenhouse” world. However, proxy data …

Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

C Buizert, TJ Fudge, WHG Roberts, EJ Steig… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Water-stable isotopes in polar ice cores are a widely used temperature proxy in
paleoclimate reconstruction, yet calibration remains challenging in East Antarctica. Here, we …

Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation

C He, Z Liu, BL Otto-Bliesner, EC Brady, C Zhu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Oxygen isotope speleothem records exhibit coherent variability over the pan-Asian summer
monsoon (AM) region. The hydroclimatic representation of these oxygen isotope records for …

Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

The latitudinal temperature gradient and its climate dependence as inferred from foraminiferal δ18O over the past 95 million years

DE Gaskell, M Huber, CL O'Brien… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The latitudinal temperature gradient is a fundamental state parameter of the climate system
tied to the dynamics of heat transport and radiative transfer. Thus, it is a primary target for …