Chairs: Heather L Ford, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Camille Contoux, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, Stella C Woodard, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States and Cyrus Karas, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Primary Convener: Heather L Ford, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Co-conveners: Camille Contoux, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, Aurora C Elmore, NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States and Aisling M Dolan, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison: Heather L Ford, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The PlioMIP and PRISM Projects: Mid- and High-Latitude Warmth during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period (Invited) (6189)
Bette L Otto-Bliesner, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Alan M Haywood, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Dr. Harry J Dowsett, PhD, U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, Virginia, United States, Aixue Hu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Esther C Brady, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Nan A Rosenbloom, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and PlioMIP Group
FAMOUS transient climate simulations compared to PRISM4 SST time-series between 3.3 and 3.2 Ma (17196)
Stephen J Hunter1, Dr. Harry J Dowsett, PhD2, Marci M Robinson3, Aisling M Dolan1, Alan M Haywood4 and Ulrich Salzmann5, (1)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)USGS, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, United States, (4)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (5)Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Increased ventilation of Antarctic deep water during the warm mid-Pliocene (Invited) (2494)
Zhongshi Zhang, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway; Uni Research, Uni Research Climate, Bergen, Norway, Prof. Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu, Ph.d. , University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway and Ulysses Ninnemann, University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
North Atlantic Surface and Deep-Water Hydrography during the Early Pliocene Warm Period (11453)
Antje H L Voelker1, Helen F Evans2, Bernhard David Naafs3, Catarina Dinis Cavaleiro4,5, Andreia Rebotim5, Cristina Prates Laranjinha Ventura4, Ruediger H Stein6 and James E T Channell7, (1)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Alges, Portugal, (2)Texas A&M University, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, TX, United States, (3)University of Bristol, Department of Earth Sciences & Department of Chemistry, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal, (5)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (6)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (7)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Were Semi-Arid Areas Wetter or Drier during the Pliocene? (Invited) (8182)
Sarah J Feakins, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Hannah Liddy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Jessica E Tierney, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Warm Pool Temperatures and the Zonal Gradient in the Tropical Pacific during the Early Pliocene Warm Period (Invited) (2635)
Ana Christina Ravelo, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, Alexey V Fedorov, Yale University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, Heather L Ford, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Kira T Lawrence, Lafayette College, Easton, United States
What can nutrients tell us about the Pliocene equatorial Pacific Ocean and the future of El Niño? (14188)
Patrick A Rafter1, John Richard Southon2, Stefano M Bernasconi3, Gerald Hermann Haug3, Daniel Mikhail Sigman4 and Fabian C Batista5, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Univ California, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
