Cretaceous-Paleocene-Eocene Climate and Climate Sensitivity

2024

Modelling the Impact of Palaeogeographical Changes on Weathering and CO₂ during the Cretaceous-Eocene Period

Hayes, N. R., Lunt, D. J., Goddéris, Y., Pancost, R. D. & Buss, H. L., 30 Sept 2024, (In preparation) EGUsphere, 26 p.

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2023

Effects of paleogeographic changes and CO₂ variability on northern mid-latitudinal temperature gradients in the Cretaceous

Gianchandani, K., Maor, S., Adam, O., Farnsworth, A., Gildor, H., Lunt, D. J. & Paldor, N., 25 Aug 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 1, 7 p., 5193.

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Modality of the Tropical Rain Belt across Models and Simulated Climates

Adam, O., Farnsworth, A. & Lunt, D. J., 1 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Climate. 36, 5, p. 1331-1345 15 p.

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2022

Climatic and tectonic drivers shaped the tropical distribution of coral reefs

Jones, L. A., Mannion, P. D., Farnsworth, A., Bragg, F. & Lunt, D. J., 14 Jun 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 3120.

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Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha

Foffa, D., Dunne, E. M., Nesbitt, S. J., Butler, R. J., Fraser, N. C., Brusatte, S. L., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D. J., Valdes, P. J., Walsh, S. & Barrett, P. M., 13 Oct 2022, In: Nature. 610, 7931, p. 313-318 6 p.

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2021

Data-constrained assessment of ocean circulation changes since the middle Miocene in an Earth system model

Crichton, K. A., Ridgwell, A., Lunt, D. J., Farnsworth, A. & Pearson, P. N., 21 Oct 2021, In: Climate of the Past. 17, 5, p. 2223-2254 32 p.

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Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO₂ world during the Weissert Event

Cavalheiro, L., Wagner, T., Steinig, S., Bottini, C., Dummann, W., Esegbue, O., Gambacorta, G., Giraldo-Gómez, V., Farnsworth, A., Flögel, S., Hofmann, P., Lunt, D. J., Rethemeyer, J., Torricelli, S. & Erba, E., 13 Sept 2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 1, 5411.

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Simulating Miocene Warmth: Insights From an Opportunistic Multi-Model Ensemble (MioMIP1)

Burls, N. J., Bradshaw, C. D., De Boer, A. M., Herold, N., Huber, M., Pound, M., Donnadieu, Y., Farnsworth, A., Frigola, A., Gasson, E., von der Heydt, A. S., Hutchinson, D. K., Knorr, G., Lawrence, K. T., Lear, C. H., Li, X., Lohmann, G., Lunt, D. J., Marzocchi, A. & Prange, M. & 4 others, Riihimaki, C. A., Sarr, A. C., Siler, N. & Zhang, Z., 24 May 2021, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36, 5, e2020PA004054.

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The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests

Lim, J. Y., Huang, H., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D. J., Baker, W. J., Morley, R. J., Kissling, W. D. & Hoorn, C., 16 Dec 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Global Ecology and Biogeography.

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2020

A long-term, high-latitude record of Eocene hydrological change in the Greenland region

Inglis, G. N., Carmichael, M. J., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D. J. & Pancost, R. D., 1 Jan 2020, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 537, 109378.

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Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction

Chiarenza, A. A., Farnsworth, A., Mannion, P. D., Lunt, D. J., Valdes, P., Morgan, J. V. & Allison, P. A., 21 Jul 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 29, p. 17084-17093 10 p.

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Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity

Dunne, E. M., Farnsworth, A., Greene, S. E., Lunt, D. J. & Butler, R. J., 17 Nov 2020, In: Palaeontology. 17 p.

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Extinction intensity during Ordovician and Cenozoic glaciations explained by cooling and palaeogeography

Saupe, E., Qiao, H., Donnadieu, Y., Farnsworth, A. J., Kennedy-Asser, A. T., Ladant, J.-B., Lunt, D. J., Pohl, A., Valdes, P. J. & Finnegan, S., 16 Dec 2020, In: Nature Geoscience. 7 p.

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Predicting sediment discharges and erosion rates in deep time—examples from the late Cretaceous North American continent

Lyster, S. J., Whittaker, A. C., Allison, P. A., Lunt, D. J. & Farnsworth, A., 1 Dec 2020, In: Basin Research. 32, 6

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The role of temperature in the initiation of the end-Triassic mass extinction

Petryshyn, V. A., Greene, S. E., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D. J., Kelley, A., Gammariello, R., Ibarra, Y., Bottjer, D. J., Tripati, A. & Corsetti, F. A., Sept 2020, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 208, 103266.

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2019

Climate sensitivity on geological timescales controlled by nonlinear feedbacks and ocean circulation

Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., O'Brien, C., Foster, G., Inglis, G., Markwick, P., Pancost, R. & Robinson, S. A., 20 Aug 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geophysical Research Letters. 10 p.

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Climatic shifts drove major contractions in avian latitudinal distributions throughout the Cenozoic

Saupe, E., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Sagoo, N., Pham, K. & Field, D., 25 Jun 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 26, p. 12895-12900 6 p.

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Coupling of palaeontological and neontological reef coral data improves forecasts of biodiversity responses under global climatic change

Jones, L. A., Mannion, P. D., Farnsworth, A., Valdes, P., Kelland, S.-J. & Allison, P. A., 24 Apr 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Royal Society Open Science. 6, 4, 13 p., 182111.

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Ecological niche modelling does not support climatically-driven dinosaur diversity decline before the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction

Chiarenza, A. A., Mannion, P. D., Lunt, D. J., Farnsworth, A., Jones, L. A., Kelland, S. J. & Allison, P. A., 6 Mar 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 14 p., 1091.

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Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2

Farnsworth, A. J., Lunt, D. J., Robinson, S. A., Valdes, P. J., Roberts, W., Clift, P. D., Markwick, P., Su, T., Wrobel, N., Bragg, F. J., Kelland, S.-J. & Pancost, R. D., 2 Oct 2019, In: Science Advances. 5, 10, 15 p., eaax1697.

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Southern Hemisphere sea-surface temperatures during the Cenomanian-Turonian: Implications for the termination of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

Robinson, S., Dickson, A., Pain, A., Jenkyns, H., O’Brien, C., Farnsworth, A. & Lunt, D., Feb 2019, In: Geology. 47, 2, p. 131-134 4 p.

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Terrestrial environmental change across the onset of the PETM and the associated impact on biomarker proxies: A cautionary tale

Inglis, G. N., Farnsworth, A., Collinson, M. E., Carmichael, M. J., Naafs, B. D. A., Lunt, D. J., Valdes, P. J. & Pancost, R. D., 1 Oct 2019, In: Global and Planetary Change. 181, 8 p., 102991.

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2018

Oligocene climate signals and forcings in Eurasia revealed by plant macrofossil and modelling results

Li, S., Xing, Y., Valdes, P. J., Huang, Y., Su, T., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D. J., Tang, H., Kennedy, A. T. & Zhou, Z., 1 Sept 2018, In: Gondwana Research. 61, p. 115-127 13 p.

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2017

Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

O'Brien, C. L., Robinson, S. A., Pancost, R. D., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Schouten, S., Lunt, D. J., Alsenz, H., Bornemann, A., Bottini, C., Brassell, S. C., Farnsworth, A., Forster, A., Huber, B. T., Inglis, G. N., Jenkyns, H. C., Linnert, C., Littler, K., Markwick, P., McAnena, A. & Mutterlose, J. & 7 others, Naafs, B. D. A., Püttmann, W., Sluijs, A., van Helmond, N. A. G. M., Vellekoop, J., Wagner, T. & Wrobel, N. E., Aug 2017, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 172, p. 224-247 24 p.

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Early Jurassic North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures from TEX₈₆palaeothermometry

Robinson, S. A., Ruhl, M., Astley, D. L., Naafs, D., Farnsworth, A., Bown, P. R., Jenkyns, H. C., Lunt, D., O'Brien, C., Pancost, R. & Markwick, P., Jan 2017, In: Sedimentology. 64, p. 215-230 16 p.

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Evaluating Northern High-Latitude Paleoclimate Model Results Using Paleobotanical Evidence from the Middle Cretaceous

Harland, M., Valdes, P., Lunt, D., Francis, J. E., Farnsworth, A., Loptson, C., Beerling, D. & Markwick, P., 28 Sept 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) Latitudinal Controls on Stratigraphic Models and Sedimentary Concepts. SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology, (SEPM Special Publications; vol. 108).

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Global warming and ocean stratification: a potential result of large extraterrestrial impacts

Joshi, M., von Glasow, R., Smith, R. S., Paxton, C. G. M., Maycock, A. C., Lunt, D. J., Loptson, C. A. & Markwick, P., 19 May 2017, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 8, p. 3841-3848 8 p.

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Mid-latitude continental temperatures through the early Eocene in western Europe

Inglis, G. N., Collinson, M., Riegel, W., Wilde, V., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Valdes, P., Robson, B., Scott, A. C., Lenz, O., Naafs, D. & Pancost, R., 15 Feb 2017, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 460, p. 86-96 11 p.

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The BRIDGE HadCM3 family of climate models: HadCM3@Bristol v1.0

Valdes, P. J., Armstrong, E., Badger, M. P. S., Bradshaw, C. D., Bragg, F., Crucifix, M., Davies-Barnard, T., Day, J., Farnsworth, A., Gordon, C., Hopcroft, P. O., Kennedy, A. T., Lord, N. S., Lunt, D. J., Marzocchi, A., Parry, L. M., Pope, V., Roberts, W. H. G., Stone, E. J. & Tourte, G. J. L. & 1 others, Williams, J. H. T., Oct 2017, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 10, 10, p. 3715-3743 29 p.

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The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM

Lunt, D., Huber, M., Anagnostou, E., Baatsen, M., Caballero, R., DeConto, R., Dijkstra, H., Donnadieu, Y., Evans, D., Feng, R., Foster, G., Gasson, E., von der Heydt, A., Hollis, C. J., Inglis, G., Jones, S., Kiehl, J., Kirtland Turner, S., Korty, R. & Kozdon, R. & 26 others, Krishnan, S., Ladant, J.-B., Langebroek, P., Lear, C., LeGrande, A., Littler, K., Markwick, P., Otto-Bliesner, B., Pearson, P., Poulsen, C., Salzmann, U., Shields, C., Snell, K., Starz, M., Super, J., Tabor, C., Tierney, J., Tourte, G. J. L., Tripati, A., Upchurch, G., Wade, B., Wing, S., Winguth, A., Wright, N., Zachos, J. & Zeebe, R., 23 Feb 2017, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 10, 2, p. 889-901 13 p.

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2016

A model-model and data-model comparison for the early Eocene hydrological cycle

Carmichael, M. J., Lunt, D. J., Huber, M., Heinemann, M., Kiehl, J., Legrande, A., Loptson, C. A., Roberts, C., Sagoo, N., Shields, C., Valdes, P. J., Winguth, A., Winguth, C. & Pancost, R. D., Feb 2016, In: Climate of the Past. 12, 2, p. 455-481 27 p.

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Hadley circulation and precipitation changes controling black shale deposition in the Late Jurassic Boreal Seaway

Armstrong, H. A., Wagner, T., Herringshaw, L. G., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Harland, M., Imber, J., Loptson, C. & Atar, E., Aug 2016, In: Paleoceanography. 31, 8, p. 1041-1053 13 p.

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Palaeogeographic controls on climate and proxy interpretation

Lunt, D., Farnsworth, A., Loptson, C., Foster, G., Markwick, P., O'Brien, C. L., Pancost, R., Robinson, S. & Wrobel, N., 20 May 2016, In: Climate of the Past. 12, p. 1181-1198 18 p.

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The cause of Late Cretaceous cooling: a multi-model/proxy comparison

Tabor, C. R., Poulsen, C. J., Lunt, D., Rosenbloom, N. A., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Markwick, P. J., Brady, E. C., Farnsworth, A. & Feng, R., Nov 2016, In: Geology. 44, 11, p. 963-966 4 p.

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The impact of Cenozoic cooling on assemblage diversity in planktonic foraminifera

Fenton, I., Pearson, P., Dunkley Jones, T., Farnsworth, A. J., Lunt, D. J., Markwick, P. & Purvis, A., Apr 2016, In: Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences. 371, 12 p., 20150224.

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2015

Atmospheric and oceanic impacts of Antarctic glaciation across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

Kennedy, A. T., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D. J., Lear, C. H. & Markwick, P. J., 13 Nov 2015, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 373, 2054, 18 p., 20140419.

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Descent towards the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions

Inglis, G., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Foster, G., Hollis, C. J., Pagani, M., Jardine, P. E., Pearson, P., Markwick, P., Galsworthy, A., Raynham, L., Taylor, K. & Pancost, R., Jul 2015, In: Paleoceanography. 30, 7, p. 1000–1020 21 p.

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Ecological and biogeochemical change in an early Paleogene peat-forming environment: Linking biomarkers and palynology

Inglis, G., Collinson, M., Riegel, W., Wilde, V., Robson, B., Lenz, O. & Pancost, R., 30 Nov 2015, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 438, p. 245-255 11 p.

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