edu.ucar.opensky::articles:22844 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-25T15:52:25.998537 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7jq145m https://doi.org/10.7289/V5T72FNM https Related Dataset #1 NOAA Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST), Version 5 https://doi.org/10.5066/F7959G1S https Related Dataset #2 PRISM late Pliocene (Piacenzian) alkenone - derived SST data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YP3DTV https Related Dataset #3 Community sourced mid-Piacenzian sea surface temperature (SST) data The mid-Piacenzian of the North Atlantic Ocean 2018-08-12T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7jq145m https://doi.org/10.29041/strat.16.3.119-144 Dowsett, H. J. author Robinson, M. M. author Foley, K. M. author Herbert, T. D. author Otto-Bliesner, Bette author Spivey, W. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The Piacenzian Age (Pliocene) represents a past climate interval within which frequency and magnitude of environmental changes during a period of past global warmth can be analyzed, climate models can be tested, and results can be placed in a context to better prepare for future change. Here we focus on the North Atlantic region, incorporating new and existing faunal assemblage and alkenone paleotemperature data from Ocean Drilling Program Sites 642, 662, 982, and 999, and International Ocean Discovery Program Sites 1308 and 1313 into our paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Cores and outcrop material containing Piacenzian sediments from the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Virginia, USA, are also included. These data allow us to characterize regional changes in temperature, salinity, upwelling, surface productivity, and diversity, associated with climate transitions, and make nuanced reconstructions of mid-Piacenzian conditions within a high-resolution temporal framework between similar to 3.40 and similar to 3.15Ma, inclusive of Marine Isotope Stages M2 through KM5. We include an initial comparison of estimated sea-surface temperature to coupled climate model simulations, which shows improvement in model adherence to paleoclimate parameters over previous data-model comparisons for the Pliocene. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2019 Micropaleontology Press None eng geoscientificInformation