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The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Climate of the Past, ISSN: 1814-9332, Vol: 12, Issue: 7, Page: 1519-1538
2016
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  • Citations
    184
    • Citation Indexes
      176
    • Policy Citations
      8
      • 8
  • Captures
    144

Article Description

The mid-Piacenzian is known as a period of relative warmth when compared to the present day. A comprehensive understanding of conditions during the Piacenzian serves as both a conceptual model and a source for boundary conditions as well as means of verification of global climate model experiments. In this paper we present the PRISM4 reconstruction, a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the mid-Piacenzian (∼ 3Ma) containing data for paleogeography, land and sea ice, sea-surface temperature, vegetation, soils, and lakes. Our retrodicted paleogeography takes into account glacial isostatic adjustments and changes in dynamic topography. Soils and lakes, both significant as land surface features, are introduced to the PRISM reconstruction for the first time. Sea-surface temperature and vegetation reconstructions are unchanged but now have confidence assessments. The PRISM4 reconstruction is being used as boundary condition data for the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2) experiments.

Bibliographic Details

Harry Dowsett; Marci Robinson; Kevin Foley; Aisling Dolan; Alan Haywood; David Rowley; Robert Moucha; Alessandro M. Forte; Jerry X. Mitrovica; Matthew Pound; Ulrich Salzmann; Mark Chandler

Copernicus GmbH

Environmental Science; Earth and Planetary Sciences

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