Changes to the tropical circulation in the mid-Pliocene and their implications for future climate

Corvec, Shawn; Fletcher, Christopher G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-135-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-135-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-135-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Research article

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16 Feb 2017

Research article |

| 16 Feb 2017

Changes to the tropical circulation in the mid-Pliocene and their implications for future climate

Shawn Corvec and Christopher G. Fletcher

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Final revised paper (published on 16 Feb 2017)
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RC1: 'Review of: Changes to the tropical circulation in the mid-Pliocene and their implications for future climate', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Review of Corvec and Fletcher - Changes to the tropical circulation in the mid-Pliocene and their implications for future climate.', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Final response to reviewer 2', Shawn Corvec, 06 Jan 2017
AC1: 'Final response to reviewer 1', Shawn Corvec, 06 Jan 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (16 Jan 2017) by Arne Winguth

AR by Shawn Corvec on behalf of the Authors (17 Jan 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (29 Jan 2017) by Arne Winguth

AR by Shawn Corvec on behalf of the Authors (30 Jan 2017)

Short summary

The mid-Pliocene warm period is sometimes thought of as being a climate that could closely resemble the climate in the near-term due to anthropogenic climate change. Here we examine the tropical atmospheric circulation as modeled by PlioMIP (the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project). We find that there are many similarities and some important differences to projections of future climate, with the pattern of sea surface temperature (SST) warming being a key factor in explaining the differences.