PP33B:
Reconstructing and Modeling the Pliocene Warm Period: A Potential Analog for Future Warmth II Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Aurora Elmore, University of Durham, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom and Camille Contoux, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Primary Conveners:  Heather L Ford, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Camille Contoux, Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Uni Climate, Bergen, Norway, Aurora Elmore, University of Durham, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom and Aisling M Dolan, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Camille Contoux, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Antarctic Role in Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
Stella C Woodard1, Yair Rosenthal2, Kenneth G Miller3, James D Wright3, Kira T Lawrence4 and Beverly K Chiu3, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (4)Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States
 
Pliocene–Pleistocene Surface and Intermediate Water Hydrography of the South Pacific Ocean
Aurora Elmore, University of Durham, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom, Erin McClymont, University of Durham, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, Henry Elderfield, Univeristy of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Sev Kender, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom
 
Surface and Intermediate Water Orbital Scale Variability in the Southern Hemisphere Before Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
Rocio P Caballero-Gill, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Timothy Herbert, Brown Univ, Providence, RI, United States
 
Arctic Temperature and Moisture Variability Associated with the Pliocene M2 Glacial Event from Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia
Jeff M Salacup, Isla S. Castañeda and Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Ocean stability during the mid-Pliocene warmth based on Calcareous nannofossils in Site 610, North Atlantic Ocean
Tokiyuki Sato1, Rendy Effendi2, Dewi Syavitri2 and Santi dwi Pratiwi3, (1)Akita University, Faculty of International Resource Sciences, Akita, Japan, (2)Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia, (3)Akita University, Akita, Japan
 
Marine and Terrestrial Evidence for Glaciation during the Pliocene – a Global Synthesis
Stijn De Schepper, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway; Uni Research, Uni Research Climate, Bergen, Norway, Philip L Gibbard, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Ulrich Salzmann, Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Jürgen Ehlers, Witzeeze, Germany
 
Miocene to Present Sea Level and the Origin of Modern Rimmed Atoll Morphology
Michael Toomey, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, J Taylor Perron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Maureen E Raymo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs., New York, NY, United States and Andrew D Ashton, WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Reconstructing Pliocene coastlines, topography and bathymetry: A geodynamic perspective
Deepak Chandan, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada and W Richard Peltier, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Towards Greenland Glaciation: Cumulative or Abrupt Transition?
Ning Tan1, Gilles Ramstein1, Camille Contoux2, Jean-Baptiste Ladant1, Christophe Dumas1 and Yannick Donnadieu1, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
 
Modelling 100 kyr of transient climate change during the Pliocene (MIS M2 to MIS KM5c)
Aisling M Dolan1, Stephen J Hunter2 and Alan M Haywood1, (1)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
 
How to Sustain Warm Northern High Latitudes during the Late Pliocene? Roles of CO2, Orbital Changes and Increased Mediterranean Salinity on Oceanic Circulation
Camille Contoux1, Zhongshi Zhang1, Camille Li2, Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu1,3 and Bjørg Risebrobakken1, (1)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Uni Research Climate, Bergen, Norway, (2)Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (3)Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
 
Putting the Past to Work: Driving Ecosystem Models with Mid-Pliocene Patterns of Warming
Peter Jacobs and Kim de Mutsert, George Mason University, Environmental Science and Policy, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
Estimating the Indirect Climate Forcing Effects of Dust via Ice-containing Clouds for the Pliocene
Nav Sagoo and Trude Storelvmo, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
Robustly weaker and longer ENSO in the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project ensemble.
Christopher M Brierley, University College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Stability of Near-Coastal Stratifi cation and Upwelling Source Depth to Gradual Climate Warming and Cooling
Madeline D Miller and Eli Tziperman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
A long history of equatorial upwelling in the Pacific Ocean
Yige Zhang1, Mark Pagani1, Haojia Abby Ren2 and Jorijntje Henderiks3, (1)Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
 
Pliocene Warm Period Upwelling in the Southern Benguela Region
Benjamin F Petrick1, Erin McClymont2, Sonja Felder3, Melanie J Leng4, Antoni Rosell Mele5 and Gemma Rueda5, (1)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Durham, DH1, United Kingdom, (3)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (4)British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom, (5)ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
 
Interhemispheric Climatic Effects from Pliocene Contrictions of Tropical Oceanic Seaways
Cyrus Karas1,2, Dirk Nuernberg1, Ralf Tiedemann3, Andre Bahr2 and Jens O. Herrle2, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, (3)Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
 
The Closure History of the Central American Seaway and its Relationship to Ocean Circulation and Climate
Amanda J Waite1, Ellen Eckels Martin1, Kira T Lawrence2, Caroline G Ladlow2 and Derrick Newkirk1, (1)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States
 
Major Changes in East Asian Climate in the Mid-Pliocene: Triggered By the Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau or Global Cooling?
Junyi Ge1,2, Ying Dai3, Zhongshi Zhang4, Deai Zhao1, Qin Li1, Yan Zhang1, Liang Yi5, Frank Oldfield6 and Zhengtang Guo1, (1)Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (5)State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
 
Sustained Warmth in Low Latitudes during the Late Miocene-Pliocene: A High-Resolution Record from the Northern South China Sea
Zhixin Zhu1, Zhonghui Liu1, Zhuo Zheng2 and Yuxin He1,3, (1)The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong, (2)Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (3)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
 
How Consistent are Sea Surface Temperature Estimates from Different Proxies? An Assessment of the Alkenone, Mg/Ca, and Faunal Paleothermometers Using Records from the Plio-Pleistocene
Kira T Lawrence1, Laura Peterson2, Peter B deMenocal3, Laura Bochner1 and Devon B. Gorbey1, (1)Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States, (2)Luther College, Decorah, IA, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Middle Miocene-Pliocene Sea Surface Temperatures: The TEX86 Perspective
James R Super and Mark Pagani, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
The Potential for High-Resolution Palaeoclimate Records of the Pliocene from Speleothems
Russell Drysdale, Jon D Woodhead and John Hellstrom, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia