Mid-Pliocene shifts in ocean overturning circulation and the onset of Quaternary-style climates

• Main Authors: Sarnthein, Michael, Bartoli, Gretta, Prange, Matthias, Schmittner, Andreas, Schneider, Birgit, Weinelt, M., Andersen, Nils, Garbe-Schönberg, Dieter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Strait; Greenland; Haug; Pacific; albedo; East Greenland; east greenland current; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/19019; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000019019

A major tipping point of Earth's history occurred during the mid-Pliocene: the onset of major Northern-Hemisphere Glaciation (NHG) and of pronounced, Quaternary-style cycles of glacial-to-interglacial climates, that contrast with more uniform climates over most of the preceding Cenozoic and con...