Authors: Sathyanadh, Anusha; Monteil, Guillaume; Scholze, Marko; Klosterhalfen, Anne; Laudon, Hjalmar; Wu, Zhendong; Gerbig, Christoph; Peters, Wouter; Bastrikov, Vladislav; Nilsson, Mats; Peichl, Matthias; Oldeman, Arthur; Baatsen, Michiel; von Der Heydt, Anna; Dijkstra, Henk; Tindall, Julia; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako; Booth, Alice; Brady, Esther; Chan, Wing-Le; Chandan, Deepak; Chandler, Mark; Contoux, Camille; Feng, Ran; Guo, Chuncheng; Haywood, Alan; Hunter, Stephen; Kamae, Youichi; Li, Qiang; Li, Xiangyu; Lohmann, Gerrit; Lunt, Daniel; Nisancioglu, Kerim; Otto-Bliesner, Bette; Peltier, W; Pontes, Gabriel; Ramstein, Gilles; Sohl, Linda; Stepanek, Christian; Tan, Ning; Zhang, Qiong; Zhang, Zhongshi; Wainer, Ilana; Williams, Charles

Venue: Climate of the Past

Type: Publication

Abstract: Abstract. The mid-Pliocene warm period (3.264–3.025 Ma) is the most recent geological period during which atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to recent historical values (∼400 ppm). Several proxy reconstructions for the mid-Pliocene show highly reduced zonal sea surface temperature (SST) gradients in the tropical Pacific Ocean, indicating an El Niño-like mean state. However, past modelling studies do not show these highly reduced gradients. Efforts to understand mid-Pliocene climate dynamics have led to the Pliocene Model Intercomparison P... (read more)

DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-2427-2021