Permanent El Niño-Like Conditions During the Pliocene Warm Period
By M. Wara, A. Ravelo, M. Delaney. Science, 2005
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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Molecular Biology, Oceanography
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- Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming (2020, background): “years ago) with atmospheric CO2 levels compa95 rable to today’s climate state suggests that there may have been permanent El-Niño conditions during that epoch (Wara et al., 2005; Ravelo et al., 2006; Fedorov et al., 2006).”
- Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change (2011, background): “…the most striking characteristic of Pliocene climate reconstructions is that low-latitude ocean temperatures were similar to those today, except that the east–west temperature gradient was reduced in the tropical Pacific Ocean, possibly resembling permanent El Niño conditions (Wara et al. 2005).”
- Early Pliocene increase in thermohaline overturning: A precondition for the development of the modern equatorial Pacific cold tongue (2010, background): “…evidence from early Pliocene paleoclimate data suggests that sea surface temperatures (SST) in the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) cold tongue were similar to those of the western tropical Pacific Warm Pool [Chaisson and Ravelo, 2000;Molnar and Cane, 2002; Ravelo et al., 2004; Wara et al., 2005].”
- The evolution of arid ecosystems in eastern Africa (2006, background): “Marine oxygen isotopes indicate that the Early Pliocene was the warmest period of the last 5 million years (Wara et al., 2005), and rainforests may have expanded into regions of eastern Africa (Williamson, 1985; Pickford et al.”
- Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (2004, background): “Climate change may have already altered the ENSO phenomenon (Fedorov and Philander 2000; Kerr 2004; Wara et al. 2005), with current weather patterns reflecting the combination of natural variability and a changing baseline.”