Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth

A deep Eastern Equatorial Pacific thermocline during the early Pliocene warm period

(2012) Heather L. Ford et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Low-Resolution CCSM4

(2012) Christine A. Shields et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Late Miocene decoupling of oceanic warmth and atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing

(2012) Jonathan P. LaRiviere et al.   NATURE

Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling

(2012) R. McKay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A 4-Ma record of thermal evolution in the tropical western Pacific and its implications on climate change

(2011) Li Li et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Changes in equatorial Pacific thermocline depth in response to Panamanian seaway closure: Insights from a multi-model study

(2011) Xiao Zhang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Community Climate System Model Version 4

(2011) Peter R. Gent et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Climate Sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model, Version 4

(2011) C. M. Bitz et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Climate impacts of intermittent upper ocean mixing induced by tropical cyclones

(2011) G. E. Manucharyan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Pliocene Indonesian Throughflow and Leeuwin Current dynamics: Implications for Indian Ocean polar heat flux

(2011) Cyrus Karas et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Atmospheric CO2decline during the Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciations

(2011) Gretta Bartoli et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Intensification of the Walker and Hadley atmospheric circulations during the Pliocene–Pleistocene climate transition

(2010) J. Etourneau et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

North Atlantic climate evolution through the Plio-Pleistocene climate transitions

(2010) K.T. Lawrence et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Alkenone and boron-based Pliocene pCO2 records

(2010) Osamu Seki et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Pliocene climate change of the Southwest Pacific and the impact of ocean gateways

(2010) Cyrus Karas et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Significantly warmer Arctic surface temperatures during the Pliocene indicated by multiple independent proxies

(2010) A.P. Ballantyne et al.   GEOLOGY

Spontaneous transition to superrotation in warm climates simulated by CAM3

(2010) Rodrigo Caballero et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Tropical cyclones and permanent El Niño in the early Pliocene epoch

(2010) Alexey V. Fedorov et al.   NATURE

Early Pliocene increase in thermohaline overturning: A precondition for the development of the modern equatorial Pacific cold tongue

(2010) Silke Steph et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Relative importance of meridional and zonal sea surface temperature gradients for the onset of the ice ages and Pliocene-Pleistocene climate evolution

(2010) Christopher M. Brierley et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Tropical Ocean Temperatures Over the Past 3.5 Million Years

(2010) T. D. Herbert et al.   SCIENCE

Subpolar Link to the Emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue

(2010) A. Martinez-Garcia et al.   SCIENCE

Pliocene–Pleistocene variability of upwelling activity, productivity, and nutrient cycling in the Benguela region

(2009) Johan Etourneau et al.   GEOLOGY

Global warming, convective threshold and false thermostats

(2009) Ian N. Williams et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Comparison of mid-Pliocene climate predictions produced by the HadAM3 and GCMAM3 General Circulation Models

(2009) Alan M. Haywood et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Climate Response of the Equatorial Pacific to Global Warming

(2009) Pedro N. DiNezio et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

High Earth-system climate sensitivity determined from Pliocene carbon dioxide concentrations

(2009) Mark Pagani et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mid-Pliocene climate change amplified by a switch in Indonesian subsurface throughflow

(2009) Cyrus Karas et al.   Nature Geoscience

Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modelling and data

(2009) Daniel J. Lunt et al.   Nature Geoscience

High-amplitude variations in North Atlantic sea surface temperature during the early Pliocene warm period

(2009) Kira T. Lawrence et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Pliocene equatorial temperature: Lessons from atmospheric superrotation

(2009) Eli Tziperman et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Differences in the Indonesian seaway in a coupled climate model and their relevance to Pliocene climate and El Niño

(2009) M. Jochum et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

(2009) B. Honisch et al.   SCIENCE

Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley Circulation in the Early Pliocene

(2009) C. M. Brierley et al.   SCIENCE

Coupling of CO2 and Ice Sheet Stability Over Major Climate Transitions of the Last 20 Million Years

(2009) A. K. Tripati et al.   SCIENCE

Deep-Sea Temperature and Ice Volume Changes Across the Pliocene-Pleistocene Climate Transitions

(2009) S. Sosdian et al.   SCIENCE

Response of the tropical Pacific to changes in extratropical clouds

(2008) Marcelo Barreiro et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Implications of seawater Mg/Ca variability for Plio-Pleistocene tropical climate reconstruction

(2008) Martín Medina-Elizalde et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A 5 million year comparison of Mg/Ca and alkenone paleothermometers

(2008) Petra S. Dekens et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Foraminiferal Mg/Ca increase in the Caribbean during the Pliocene: Western Atlantic Warm Pool formation, salinity influence, or diagenetic overprint?

(2008) Jeroen Groeneveld et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Sea surface temperature differences between the western equatorial Pacific and northern South China Sea since the Pliocene and their paleoclimatic implications

(2008) Guodong Jia et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels

(2008) Daniel J. Lunt et al.   NATURE

Transient nature of late Pleistocene climate variability

(2008) Thomas J. Crowley et al.   NATURE

High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present

(2008) Dieter Lüthi et al.   NATURE

Closing of the Central American Seaway and the Ice Age: A critical review

(2008) Peter Molnar   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY