Natalie J. Burls

TL;DR: The recent advances in data collection, statistics, and modeling that might help to better understand how rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide will affect future climate are reviewed.

TL;DR: A review of the state-of-the-art in Miocene climate, ocean circulation, biogeochemical cycling, ice sheet dynamics, and biotic adaptation research can be found in this article.

TL;DR: This paper used records from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including a new alkenone palaeotemperature record from the South Pacific, to reconstruct changes in zonal and meridional sea surface temperature gradients since the Pliocene, and assess their connection using a comprehensive climate model.

TL;DR: This modeling results highlight that accurately predicting the response of the hydrological cycle to global warming requires predicting not only how global mean temperature responds to elevated CO2 forcing but also accurately quantifying how meridional sea-surface temperature patterns will change (structural climate sensitivity).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize several Miocene climate modeling efforts together with available terrestrial and ocean surface temperature reconstructions and evaluate the range of model-data agreement, highlight robust mechanisms operating across Miocene modeling efforts and highlight regions where differences across experiments result in a large spread in warming responses.