Climate of the Past
Climate of the Past
CP
Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1359-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1359-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
Research article
 | 
13 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2023

Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications

Georgia R. Grant, Jonny H. T. Williams, Sebastian Naeher, Osamu Seki, Erin L. McClymont, Molly O. Patterson, Alan M. Haywood, Erik Behrens, Masanobu Yamamoto, and Katelyn Johnson

Data sets

Data tables associated with manuscript 'Grant et al., Regional amplified warming in the Southwest Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3-3.0 Ma)' Georgia Rose Grant https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7935217

Model code and software

GRG-GNS/Pliocene-SST-Southwest-Pacific: Publication release Grant et al., 2023 Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (v1.0.script) Georgia Rose Grant https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8125899

Download
Short summary
Regional warming will differ from global warming, and climate models perform poorly in the Southern Ocean. We reconstruct sea surface temperatures in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene, a time 3 million years ago that represents the long-term outcomes of 3 °C warming, which is expected for the future. Comparing these results to climate model simulations, we show that the south-west Pacific region will warm by 1 °C above the global average if atmospheric CO2 remains above 350 ppm.
Read more