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McClymont, Erin L; Ho, Sze Ling; Ford, Heather L; Bailey, Ian; Berke, Melissa A; Bolton, Clara T; De Schepper, Stijn; Grant, Georgia Rose; Groeneveld, Jeroen; Inglis, Gordon N; Karas, Cyrus; Patterson, Molly O; Swann, George E A; Thirumalai, Kaustubh; White, Sarah M; Alonso-Garcia, Montserrat; Anand, Pallavi; Hoogakker, Babette A A; Littler, Kate; Petrick, Benjamin F; Risebrobakken, Bjørg; Abell, Jordan; Crocker, Anya J; de Graaf, Friso; Feakins, Sarah J; Hargreaves, Julia C; Jones, Chloe Louise; Markowska, Monika; Ratnayake, Amila S; Stepanek, Christian; Tangunan, Deborah N (2023): Synthesis of sea surface temperature and foraminifera stable isotope data spanning the mid-Pliocene warm period and early Pleistocene (PlioVAR) [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956158

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Abstract:
The Pliocene Epoch (~2.6–5.3 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and therefore offers an example of a climate system in long-term equilibrium with current or predicted near-future carbon dioxide concentrations. The end of the Pliocene (~2.6 Ma) is marked by further ice-sheet expansion and intensification of glacial (cold) stages, referred to as the "intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation" (iNHG). Here we present the data used to assess the spatial and temporal variability of ocean temperatures and ice-volume indicators through the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene (from 3.3 to 2.4 Ma) to determine the character of this climate transition. The data come from the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern Ocean, as well as some marginal seas. Here we present the synthesized alkenone sea-surface temperature, Mg/Ca sea-surface temperature, planktonic foraminifera d18O and benthic foraminifera d18O data which were used in our synthesis. Although the original data sets are largely published, here we present the alkenone SST records calculated using the BAYSPLINE calibration where these were not part of the original publication; the Mg/Ca-SST records where we revised the absolute SSTs; any data sets where we revised the age model.
Keyword(s):
alkenone SST; benthic and planktonic foraminifers; d18O of planktic foraminifera; foraminifera oxygen isotopes; Mg/Ca-based sea surface temperature; Northern Hemisphere glaciation; Pleistocene; Pliocene
Supplement to:
McClymont, Erin L; Ho, Sze Ling; Ford, Heather L; Bailey, Ian; Berke, Melissa A; Bolton, Clara T; De Schepper, Stijn; Grant, Georgia Rose; Groeneveld, Jeroen; Inglis, Gordon N; Karas, Cyrus; Patterson, Molly O; Swann, George E A; Thirumalai, Kaustubh; White, Sarah M; Alonso-Garcia, Montserrat; Anand, Pallavi; Hoogakker, Babette A A; Littler, Kate; Petrick, Benjamin F; Risebrobakken, Bjørg; Abell, Jordan T; Crocker, Anya J; de Graaf, Friso; Feakins, Sarah J; Hargreaves, Julia C; Jones, Chloe Louise; Markowska, Monika; Ratnayake, Amila S; Stepanek, Christian; Tangunan, Deborah N (2023): Climate Evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation. Reviews of Geophysics, e2022RG000793, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RG000793
Project(s):
PlioVAR - Pliocene climate variability over glacial-interglacial timescales (PAGES_PlioVAR)
Funding:
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), grant/award no. ANR-16-CE01-0004-01
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), grant/award no. ACT210046
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn (DFG), grant/award no. 3528/8-1
Leverhulme Trust, grant/award no. 2013
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST), grant/award no. 110-2611-M-002-028
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST), grant/award no. 111-2611-M-002-027
National Science Foundation (NSF), grant/award no. OCE-2126500: OCE-PRF Unraveling Southern Hemisphere westerly wind variability through the last ~150 ky using Tasman Sea sediments
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), grant/award no. NE/N015045/1
The Research Council of Norway (RCN), grant/award no. 221712
The Royal Society, grant/award no. DHF\R1\191178: DETECT
UK Research and Innovation, grant/award no. MR/S034293/1
University of Santiago Chile, grant/award no. 092112KSSA
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 9.045286 * Median Longitude: 25.802236 * South-bound Latitude: -46.880000 * West-bound Longitude: -147.109800 * North-bound Latitude: 69.249800 * East-bound Longitude: 174.948000
Date/Time Start: 1972-02-08T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2004-04-02T00:00:00
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Size:
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Datasets listed in this bundled publication

  1. McClymont, EL; Ho, SL; Ford, HL et al. (2023): Compiled Mg/Ca data from PlioVAR. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956157
  2. McClymont, EL; Ho, SL; Ford, HL et al. (2023): Compiled planktonic d18O data from PlioVAR. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956155
  3. McClymont, EL; Ho, SL; Ford, HL et al. (2023): Compiled Uk'37 data from PlioVAR. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956144
  4. McClymont, EL; Ho, SL; Ford, HL et al. (2023): PlioVAR changepoint analysis. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956153
  5. McClymont, EL; Ho, SL; Ford, HL et al. (2023): PlioVAR glacial-interglacial summaries by proxy. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956154
  6. McClymont, EL; Ho, SL; Ford, HL et al. (2023): PlioVAR KM5c, M2 sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956152
  7. McClymont, EL; Ho, SL; Ford, HL et al. (2023): PlioVAR sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly calculation. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956147