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GENERAL INTEREST

• Robinson, M., 2011, Pliocene Climate Lessons; An ongoing reconstruction of a warmer Earth 3 million years ago helps test climate-change forecasts: American Scientist vol. 99, May—June: 227-235.

• Haywood, A.M., Ridgwell, A., Lunt, D.J., Hill, D.J., Pound, M.J., Dowsett, H.J., Dolan, A.M., Francis, J.E., and Williams, M., 2011, Are there pre-Quaternary geological analogues for a future greenhouse warming?: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, v. 369, no. 1938, p. 933-956.

• Harry J. Dowsett, Rocio P. Caballero Gill, 2010. Pliocene Climate. Stratigraphy, vol. 7, No. 2-3: 105-110

• Robinson, Marci, and Dowsett, Harry, 2010, Why study paleoclimate?: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, 2010-3021, 2 p.

• Etourneau, J. and Khelifi, N., Report: Workshop on Pliocene Climate. Bordeaux, October 2009.

• Maureen E. Raymo, P. Hearty, R. De Conto, M. O’Leary, H.J. Dowsett, M.M. Robinson and J.X. Mitrovica. 2009, PLIOMAX: Pliocene maximum sea level project. PAGES News, 17(2): 58-59

• Podcast: Harry Dowsett and Marci Robinson. Prehistoric Climate Provides Clues to Future Changes. Host Pat Jellison.  Download

• Haywood, A.M., H.J. Dowsett, and P.J. Valdes, ed. 2009. The Pliocene: a vision of Earth in the late 21st Century?  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

• Robinson, M.M., H.J. Dowsett, and M.A. Chandler, 2008. Pliocene Role in Assessing Future Climate Impacts EOS, 89(49): 501-502.

• Chandler, M., Dowsett, H. and Haywood, A., 2008. The PRISM Model-Data Cooperative: Mid-Pliocene Data-Model Comparisons. PAGES News, 16(2): 24-25.

PRISM 3

• Dowsett, H.J., Haywood, A.M., Valdes, P.J., Robinson, M.M., Lunt, D.J., Hill, D.J., Stoll, D.K., and Foley, K.M., 2011, Sea surface temperatures of the mid-Piacenzian Warm Period: A comparison of PRISM3 and HadCM3: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 309, no. 1-2, p. 83-91.

• Robinson, M.M., Valdes, P.J., Haywood, A.M., Dowsett, H.J., Hill, D.J., and Jones, S.M., 2011, Bathymetric controls on Pliocene North Atlantic and Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 309, no. 1-2, p. 92-97.

• Foley, K.M., 2011, Computational considerations for collecting and using data in the equidistant cylindrical map projection and the bounds of sampling geographic data at progressively higher resolution: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 2-H1, 5 p.

• Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson, Alan M. Haywood, Ulrich Salzmann, Daniel Hill, Linda Sohl, Mark Chandler, Mark Williams, Kevin Foley, Danielle K. Stoll, 2010. The PRISM3D paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Stratigraphy, vol. 7, No. 2-3: 123-139.

• Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson, Danielle K. Stoll, Kevin M. Foley, 2010. Mid-Piacenzian mean annual sea surface temperature: an analysis for data-model comparisons. Stratigraphy, vol. 7, No. 2-3: 189-198.

• Marci M. Robinson, Harry J. Dowsett, 2010. ePRISM: A case study in multiple proxy and mixed temporal resolution integration. Stratigraphy, vol. 7, No. 2-3: 177-187

• Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M. and Foley, K.M., 2009. Pliocene three-dimensional global ocean temperature reconstruction. Climate of the Past, 5(4): 769-783.

• Robinson, M.M., 2009. New quantitative evidence of extreme warmth in the Pliocene arctic. Stratigraphy, vol. 6 No. 4: 265-275.

• Dowsett, H.J. and Robinson M.M., 2009. Mid-Pliocene equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature reconstruction: A multi-proxy perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0206, 17 p.

• Dowsett, Harry J., Mark A. Chandler, and Marci M. Robinson, 2009. Surface temperatures of the Mid-Pliocene North Atlantic Ocean: implications for future climate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0213, 16p.

• Robinson, M. M., H. J. Dowsett, G. S. Dwyer, and K. T. Lawrence, 2008, Reevaluation of mid-Pliocene North Atlantic sea surface temperatures, Paleoceanography, 23, PA3213, doi:10.1029/2008PA001608.

• Salzmann, U., Haywood, A. M., Lunt D. J. Valdes, P. J. & Hill, D. J., 2008 A new Global Biome Reconstruction and Data-Model Comparison for the middle Pliocene.Global Ecology and Biogeography 17(3): 432-447.

• Dowsett, H.J., 2007. Faunal re-evaluation of Mid-Pliocene conditions in the western equatorial Pacific. Micropaleontology, 53(6): 447-456.

• Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., Dwyer, G., Chandler, M. and Cronin, T., 2006. PRISM3 DOT1 Atlantic basin reconstruction.  U.S. Geological Survey Data Series, 189: 4p.

• Cronin, T.M., H. J. Dowsett, G. S. Dwyer, P. A. Baker and M. Chandler, 2005.  Mid Pliocene deep-sea bottom water temperatures based on ostracode Mg/Ca ratios Marine Micropaleontology, 54: 249-261.

PRISM 2

• Dowsett,H.J., 2007.  The PRISM Palaeoclimate Reconstruction and Pliocene Sea-Surface Temperature.  In: M. Williams, A.M. Haywood, J. Gregory and D. Schmidt (ed), Deep-time perspectives on climate change: marrying the signal from computer models and biological proxies, The Micropalaeontological Society Special Publications The Geological Society of London

• Dowsett, H.J., Chandler, M.A., Cronin, T.M. and Dwyer, G.S., 2005.  Middle Pliocene sea surface temperature variability.  Paleoceanography , 20(2):PA2014.

• Dowsett, H.J., 2004.  Bracketing mid Pliocene Sea Surface Temperature:  Maximum and minimum possible warming.  U.S. Geological Survey Data Series, DS114.

• Dowsett, H.J., Barron, J.A., Poore, R.Z., Thompson, R.S., Cronin, T.M., Ishman,S.E., and Willard, D.A., 1999.  Pliocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction:  U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-535.  Abstract.

• Thompson, R.S., Fleming, R. Farley, 1996. Middle Pliocene vegetation: reconstructions, paleoclimatic inferences, and boundary conditions for climate modeling.  Marine Micropaleontology,  27: 27-49.

PRISM 1

• Dowsett, H.J., Barron, J., and R.Z. Poore, 1996.  Middle Pliocene sea surface temperatures:  a global reconstruction.  Marine Micropaleontology, 27(1/4): 13-25. Abstract.

PRISM 0

• Dowsett, H.J., Thompson, R.S., Barron, J.A., Cronin, T.M., Fleming, R.F., Ishman, S.E., Poore, R.Z., Willard, D.A. and Holtz, T.R., 1994.  Joint investigations of the middle Pliocene climate I:  PRISM paleoenvironmental reconstructions.  Global and Planetary Change 9: 169-195.

• Dowsett, H.J., Cronin, T.M., Poore, R.Z., Thompson, R.S., Whatley, R.C., and Wood, A.M., 1992, Micropaleontological evidence for increased meridional heat transport in the North Atlantic Ocean during the Pliocene: Science, v. 258, p. 1133-1135.

MODELING

• Pope, J.O., Collins, M., Haywood, A.M., Dowsett, H.J., Hunter, S.J., Lunt, D.J., Pickering, S.J., and Pound, M.J., 2011, Quantifying Uncertainty in Model Predictions for the Pliocene (Plio-QUMP): Initial Results: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, and Paleoecology, v. 309, no. 1-2, p. 128-140.

• Dolan, A.M., Haywood, A.M., Hill, D.J., Dowsett, H.J., Hunter, S.J., Lunt, D.J., and Pickering, S.J., 2011, Sensitivity of Pliocene Ice Sheets to Orbital Forcing: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 309, no. 1-2, p. 98-110.

• Haywood, A., Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., Stoll, D., Dolan, A., Lunt, D., Otto-Bliesner, B., and Chandler, M., 2011, Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP): experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 2): Geoscientific Model Development, v. 4, p. 445-456.

• Daniel J. Hill, Aisling M. Dolan, Alan M. Haywood, Stephen J. Hunter, Danielle K. Stoll, 2010. Sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Pliocene sea surface temperatures. Stratigraphy, vol. 7, No. 2-3: 111-122.

• Haywood, A. M., Dowsett, H. J., Otto-Bliesner, B., Chandler, M. A., Dolan, A. M., Hill, D. J., Lunt, D. J., Robinson, M. M., Rosenbloom, N., Salzmann, U., and Sohl, L. E.: Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP): experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 1), Geosci. Model Dev., 3, 227-242, 2010

• Lunt, D.J., Haywood, A.M., Schmidt, G.A., Salzmann, U., Valdes, P.J., and Dowsett, H.J., 2010, Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modelling and data: Nature Geoscience, v. 3, no. 1, p. 60-64.

• Haywood, A.M., Chandler, M.A., Valdes, P.J., Salzmann, U., Lunt, D.J., Dowsett, H.J. (2009). Comparison of mid-Pliocene climate predictions produced by the HadAM3 and GCMAM3 General Circulation Models. Global and Planetary Change, 66: 208-224

• Bonham, S., Haywood, A., Lunt, D., ; Collins, M., ; Salzmann, U., 2009. El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Pliocene climate and equifinality. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 367(1886): 127-156.

• Poster:  Haywood, A.M., Bonham, S.G., Chandler, M.A., Valdes, P.J., Salzmann, U., Lunt, D.J., Otto-Bliesner, B., Rosenbloom, N., Dowsett, H.J. 2008. Simulating the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period: how similar are the models? Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP51B-1500.

• Haywood, A.M. and Valdes P.J., 2004: Modeling Pliocene warmth: contribution of atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere,Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218: 363-377.

• Sloan, L.C., Crowley, T.J. and Pollard, D., 1996: Modeling of middle Pliocene climate with the NCAR GENESIS general circulation model, Marine Micropaleontology, 27: 51-61.

• Chandler, M., Rind, D. and Thompson, R., 1994: Joint investigations of the middle Pliocene climate II: GISS GCM Northern Hemisphere results, Global and Planetary Change, 9: 197-219.