Challenges in quantifying Pliocene terrestrial warming revealed by data-model discord

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 969-974

  Salzmann, Ulrich ^a   Dolan, Aisling M ^b   Haywood, Alan M ^b   Chan, Wing Le ^c   Voss, Jochen ^b   Hill, Daniel J ^d   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^c,e   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^f   Bragg, Frances J ^g   Chandler, Mark A ^h   Contoux, Camille ^i,j   Dowsett, Harry J ^k   Jost, Anne ^j   Kamae, Youichi ^l   Lohmann, Gerrit ^m   Lunt, Daniel J ^g   Pickering, Steven J ^b   Pound, Matthew J ^a   Ramstein, Gilles ⁱ   Rosenbloom, Nan A ^f   Sohl, Linda ^h   Stepanek, Christian ^m   Ueda, Hiroaki ^l   Zhang, Zhongshi ^n,o   more..

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^h NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

ⁱ LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^j SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^k U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^m ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^o BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; WARMING;

EID: 84887058948     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2008     Document Type: Article

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