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Nat Commun. 2016 Feb 16;7:10646. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10646.

Integrating geological archives and climate models for the mid-Pliocene warm period.

Nature communications

Alan M Haywood, Harry J Dowsett, Aisling M Dolan

Affiliations

  1. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT, UK.
  2. Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center, US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia 20192, USA.

PMID: 26879640 PMCID: PMC4757764 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10646

Abstract

The mid-Pliocene Warm Period (mPWP) offers an opportunity to understand a warmer-than-present world and assess the predictive ability of numerical climate models. Environmental reconstruction and climate modelling are crucial for understanding the mPWP, and the synergy of these two, often disparate, fields has proven essential in confirming features of the past and in turn building confidence in projections of the future. The continual development of methodologies to better facilitate environmental synthesis and data/model comparison is essential, with recent work demonstrating that time-specific (time-slice) syntheses represent the next logical step in exploring climate change during the mPWP and realizing its potential as a test bed for understanding future climate change.

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