50 The Last Great Global Warming: Proxy Reconstructions and Modeling the Pliocene Climate

Thursday, 11 August 2005
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  INVITED: THE INFLUENCE OF TROPICAL OCEAN CONDITIONS ON PLIOCENE WARMTH AND THE ONSET OF NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GLACIATION
  Paul J. Valdes, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A and Alan Haywood, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A
  87846 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:50 PM
  PRESERVATION INTEGRITY OF PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERAL TESTS IN OCEANOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION: EXAMPLES FROM THE LAST 6 MILLION YEARS
  Mark Williams, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A and Alan M. Haywood, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A and Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A and Ian P. Wilkinson, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, N/A
  88325 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:10 PM
  MODELLING THE EAST ANTARCTIC CRYOSPHERE DURING THE PLIOCENE
  Daniel J. Hill, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A and Alan Haywood, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A and Richard Hindmarsh, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A and Paul Valdes, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A
  88046 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:30 PM
  A SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE ON PLIO-PLEISTOCENE OCEAN COOLING
  Kira T. Lawrence, Brown University, Providence, RI and Zhonghui Liu, Brown University, Providence, RI and Laura C. Cleaveland, Brown University, Providence, RI and Timothy D. Herbert, Brown University, Providence, RI and Maureen E. Raymo, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
  88736 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:10 PM
  WARMER TROPICS DURING THE MID PLIOCENE? COMPARING TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL PROXY DATA TO CLIMATE MODEL OUTPUTS
  Alan M. Haywood, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A and Daniel Hill, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, N/A
  87881 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:30 PM
  INVITED: MIDDLE PLIOCENE DEEP OCEAN TEMPERATURE
  Gary Dwyer, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Durham, NC and Thomas Cronin, U. S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Harry Dowsett, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Mark Chandler, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
  88897 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:50 PM
  THE ROLE OF ALTERED INITIAL AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN COUPLED GCM SIMULATIONS OF THE PLIOCENE CLIMATE
  Mark A. Chandler, Columbia Univ, New York, NY and Harry Dowsett, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Gary Dwyer, Nicholas School of the Environ and Earth Sciences, Durham, NC and Tom Cronin, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  88867 (THEME SESSIONS)