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Session Proposal: Informing future prediction with paleoclimate information – lessons from Cenozoic warm intervals (AGU25)

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Informing future prediction with paleoclimate information – lessons from Cenozoic warm intervals

Session ID#: 252727

Session Description:
The investigation of paleoclimates provides the only window into climate conditions with elevated CO2 levels. Through coordinated efforts, studies of Pliocene and Eocene have informed many aspects of future climate projections from constraining equilibrium climate sensitivity to understanding the stability of Antarctic ice sheet. Yet, many questions remain. For example, how does greenhouse gas concentrations evolve during major glaciation and warming intervals? What are the spatial patterns of temperature and rainfall changes compared to the preindustrial? How does climate variability (orbital, decadal, yearly, or even weather-scale) change in a warmer climate? How do climate forcings and feedbacks differ between climate states? How sensitive is global and regional climate to changes in ocean gateways? How do we account for these differences between past and present when deriving insights for future climate change? We welcome contributions from both the climate modeling (especially the PlioMIP community) and proxy reconstruction communities.
Index Terms:

4914 Continental climate records [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4928 Global climate models [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4930 Greenhouse gases [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4954 Sea surface temperature [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Primary Convener:  Ran Feng, University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Storrs, United States
Conveners:  Tripti Bhattacharya, Syracuse University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Syracuse, NY, United States, Dr. Harry J Dowsett, PhD, U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, Virginia, United States and Heather L Ford, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Early Pliocene Sea Surface Temperature (1863100)
Dr. Harry J Dowsett, PhD, U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, Virginia, United States and PRISM Project Members
 
Quantitative Reconstruction of Climate and Environmental Conditions in the East Asia Monsoon Marginal Zone during Pliocene (1863202)
Hanzhi Zhang1, Chen Chen2, Jian Yu2, Mengying Wu2, Songnian Jiang2, Xunze Zuo2, Hengzhi Lyu2, Cheng Zhao1 and Huyu Lu2, (1)Nanjing University, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing, China, (2)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
 
DeepMIP-Eocene Phase 2: Experimental design and impact of new paleogeography and vegetation (1864150)
Dan John Lunt, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, Nicky Wright, The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia and The DeepMIP team
 
The Role of Palaeogeography, CO2, and Ocean Circulation in the Simulation of Early and Late Pliocene Climate (Invited) (1864523)
Alan Haywood1, Julia Tindall2 and Stephen J Hunter1, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
 
Pliocene Asian Monsoon: Continental and Marine Perspectives (Invited) (1872136)
Huayu Lu, Nanjing University, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing, China
 
Past warm climates inform the future South Asian summer monsoon (1891189)
Linqiang He1,2, Tianjun Zhou2 and Zhun Guo2, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Understanding Indonesian Throughflow dynamics during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene using multiple SST proxies: A new record from IODP Site U1482 (1891661)
Dr. Benjamin Petrick1, Ann Holbourn2, Janika Joehnck3, Wolfgang Kuhnt2 and Felix Elling4, (1)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Christian-Albrechts-University, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany, (3)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)University of Kiel, Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Isotope Research, Kiel, Germany
 
Effect of Early Eocene Paleogeography on Large-scale Atmospheric Circulation (1894337)
Fanni Dora Kelemen1, Richard Lohmann1, Jiang Zhu2 and Bodo Ahrens1, (1)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
 
A new Eocene to Oligocene stable isotope record from the Southwest Pacific — climate, productivity and intermediate water ventilation at IODP Site U1553, Campbell Basin, New Zealand. (1904135)
Ingrid L Hendy, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Danya Mendoza Mares, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Is There A Systematic Mismatch For Warm and High CO2 Cenozoic Climates Between Mid To High Latitude Temperatures Reconstruction And Simulation? (1908445)
Gilles Ramstein, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, Ning Tan, Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,, Beijing, China, Frederic Fluteau, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Zhongshi Zhang, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, Peter O Hopcroft, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom and Natalie Burls, George Mason University, Fairfax, United States
 
Dynamic Mechanisms Govern Pliocene Climate in Northwestern South America (1913268)
Lina C Pérez-Angel, PhD1, James M Russell2, Isabel Tribe1, Maria Fernanda Almanza3 and William Avellaneda3, (1)Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (3)Servicio Geológico Colombiano, Bucaramanga, Colombia
 
iCESM1.3 contributions to Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project 3 (1916168)
Ran Feng1, Bette L Otto-Bliesner2, Dr. Harry J Dowsett, PhD3, Anta-Clarisse Sarr4, Joseph Schnaubelt5 and Jiang Zhu2, (1)University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Storrs, United States, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, Virginia, United States, (4)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (5)University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
 
The PETM is not that hot in TEXAS: Reconstructing hyperthermals with a proxy system model for tetraether lipids (1926243)
Ronnakrit Rattanasriampaipong, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jessica Tierney, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States, Felix Elling, University of Kiel, Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Isotope Research, Kiel, Germany and Gordon N. Inglis, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
PLIO-CLEM: A Statistical Pliocene Climate Emulator for Simulating Transient Climate Response and Ice Volume Variability (1927392)
Taylor Deneau, University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Storrs, United States and Clay Richard Tabor, University of Connecticut, Earth Sciences, Storrs, United States
 
Comparing Low- and Mid-Latitude Seasonal Amplitudes Using Clumped Isotopes as recorded in Plio-Pleistocene Mercenaria spp. (1959767)
Garrett Braniecki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Donna M Surge, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States and Ethan Hyland, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Department of Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, United States
 
Tropical Indian Ocean Variability from the Pleistocene to the Pliocene: Evidence from Ninety-East Ridge (1959986)
Ryan Glaubke, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States and Heather L Ford, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Resolution and State Dependence of Atmospheric River Activity in Response to CO2 Forcing (1970343)
Sophia Macarewich1, Bette L Otto-Bliesner1, Jiang Zhu1, Esther C Brady1, Ran Feng2, Clay Richard Tabor3, Juan Manuel Lora4, Chijun Sun5, Jessica E Tierney6 and Frederic S Castruccio1, (1)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Storrs, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Earth Sciences, Storrs, United States, (4)Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Super-Interglacial Period Offers Evidence of Perturbed Nitrogen Cycle in the Southwest Indian Ocean (1981088)
Molly Robinson1, Rebecca S Robinson2, Nina Storozhynska3 and Roger Patrick Kelly2, (1)University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, Toms River, New Jersey, UNITED STATES, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (3)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States