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
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
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
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
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
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