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Lessons from a high-CO2 world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago
Erin L. McClymont
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Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, 10617 Taipei, Taiwan
Julia C. Tindall
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, UK
Alan M. Haywood
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, UK
Montserrat Alonso-Garcia
Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
CCMAR, Universidade do Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Ian Bailey
Camborne School of Mines & Environment and Sustainability
Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, TR10 9FE, UK
Melissa A. Berke
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46656, USA
Kate Littler
Camborne School of Mines & Environment and Sustainability
Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, TR10 9FE, UK
Molly O. Patterson
Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies,
Binghamton University SUNY, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, New York, USA
Benjamin Petrick
Climate Geochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Francien Peterse
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CB, the Netherlands
A. Christina Ravelo
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Bjørg Risebrobakken
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate
Research, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Stijn De Schepper
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate
Research, 5007 Bergen, Norway
George E. A. Swann
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
Kaustubh Thirumalai
Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Jessica E. Tierney
Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Carolien van der Weijst
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CB, the Netherlands
Sarah White
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo,
Kashiwa, 277-8564, Japan
National Institute for Polar Research, Tachikawa, 190-8518, Japan
Michiel L. J. Baatsen
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU),
Department of Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CC, the Netherlands
Esther C. Brady
Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Wing-Le Chan
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo,
Kashiwa, 277-8564, Japan
Deepak Chandan
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A7,
Canada
Ran Feng
Department of Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06033, USA
Chuncheng Guo
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate
Research, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Anna S. von der Heydt
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU),
Department of Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CC, the Netherlands
Stephen Hunter
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, UK
Xiangyi Li
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate
Research, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Climate Change Research Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Gerrit Lohmann
Alfred-Wegener-Institut – Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar and
Meeresforschung (AWI), Bremerhaven, 27570, Germany
Kerim H. Nisancioglu
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate
Research, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Allégaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1028, Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
W. Richard Peltier
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A7,
Canada
Christian Stepanek
Alfred-Wegener-Institut – Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar and
Meeresforschung (AWI), Bremerhaven, 27570, Germany
Zhongshi Zhang
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate
Research, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric
Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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Short summary
We examine the sea-surface temperature response to an interval of climate ~ 3.2 million years ago, when CO2 concentrations were similar to today and the near future. Our geological data and climate models show that global mean sea-surface temperatures were 2.3 to 3.2 ºC warmer than pre-industrial climate, that the mid-latitudes and high latitudes warmed more than the tropics, and that the warming was particularly enhanced in the North Atlantic Ocean.
We examine the sea-surface temperature response to an interval of climate ~ 3.2 million years...
