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Chris Brierley
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 68
Citations - 3007
Chris Brierley is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Sea surface temperature. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 60 publications receiving 2214 citations. Previous affiliations of Chris Brierley include University of Reading & Yale University.
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Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth
Alexey V. Fedorov,Chris Brierley,Chris Brierley,Kira T Lawrence,Zhonghui Liu,Petra S Dekens,Ana Christina Ravelo +6 more
TL;DR: The available geochemical proxy records of sea surface temperature are synthesized and it is shown that, compared with that of today, the early Pliocene climate had substantially lower meridional and zonal temperature gradients but similar maximum ocean temperatures.
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Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years
David Thornalley,David Thornalley,Delia W Oppo,Pablo Ortega,Jon Robson,Chris Brierley,Renee Davis,Ian Hall,Paola Moffa-Sanchez,Neil L. Rose,Peter T. Spooner,Igor Yashayaev,Lloyd D Keigwin +12 more
TL;DR: Palaeoclimate reconstructions indicate that the transition occurred either as a predominantly abrupt shift towards the end of the LIA, or as a more gradual, continued decline over the past 150 years; this ambiguity probably arises from non-AMOC influences on the various proxies or from the different sensitivities of these proxies to individual components of the AMOC.
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Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley Circulation in the Early Pliocene
Chris Brierley,Alexey V. Fedorov,Zhonghui Liu,Timothy D Herbert,Kira T Lawrence,Jonathan P LaRiviere +5 more
TL;DR: This reconstruction shows that the meridional temperature gradient between the equator and subtropics was greatly reduced, implying a vast poleward expansion of the ocean tropical warm pool, which had enormous impacts on the Pliocene climate.
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Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether the decline in global atmospheric CO2 concentration in the late 1500s and early 1600s, which globally lowered surface air temperatures by 0.15∘C, were generated by natural forcing or were a result of the large-scale depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession.
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Tropical cyclones and permanent El Niño in the early Pliocene epoch
TL;DR: A positive feedback between hurricanes and the upper-ocean circulation in the tropical Pacific Ocean that may have been essential for maintaining warm, El Niño-like conditions during the early Pliocene is described.