@article{7959852119bb48cea0434e93b1835a5f,
title = "The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) paleoenvironmental reconstruction",
abstract = "The mid-Piacenzian is known as a period of relative warmth when compared to the present day. A comprehensive understanding of conditions during the Piacenzian serves as both a conceptual model and a source for boundary conditions as well as means of verification of global climate model experiments. In this paper we present the PRISM4 reconstruction, a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the mid-Piacenzian (∼ 3Ma) containing data for paleogeography, land and sea ice, sea-surface temperature, vegetation, soils, and lakes. Our retrodicted paleogeography takes into account glacial isostatic adjustments and changes in dynamic topography. Soils and lakes, both significant as land surface features, are introduced to the PRISM reconstruction for the first time. Sea-surface temperature and vegetation reconstructions are unchanged but now have confidence assessments. The PRISM4 reconstruction is being used as boundary condition data for the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2) experiments.",
author = "Harry Dowsett and Aisling Dolan and David Rowley and Robert Moucha and Forte, {Alessandro M.} and Mitrovica, {Jerry X.} and Matthew Pound and Ulrich Salzmann and Marci Robinson and Mark Chandler and Kevin Foley and Alan Haywood",
note = "Funding Information: Harry Dowsett, Marci Robinson, and Kevin Foley are supported by the US Geological Survey Climate and Land Use Change Research and Development Program. Aisling Dolan and Alan Haywood acknowledge that this research was completed in receipt of funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 278636. Ulrich Salzmann, Alan Haywood, and Matthew Pound acknowledge funding received from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC grant NE/I016287/1). David Rowley, Alessandro M. Forte, Jerry X. Mitrovica, and Robert Moucha acknowledge support from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's Earth System Evolution Program. Alessandro M. Forte also thanks the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Mark Chandler is supported by the NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction program (NASA grant NNX14AB99A) and the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at Goddard Space Flight Center. We thank Daniel Hill, Stephen Hunter, Linda Sohl, and Adam Bloemers for helpful input and Robert Schmunk for the Panoply visualization software. Harry Dowsett, Aisling Dolan, Alan Haywood, Ulrich Salzmann, and Matthew Pound also thank the EPSRC-supported Past Earth Network. This research used samples and/or data provided by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), and Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Author(s) 2016.",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "13",
doi = "10.5194/cp-12-1519-2016",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "12",
pages = "1519--1538",
journal = "Climate of the Past",
issn = "1814-9324",
publisher = "European Geosciences Union",
number = "7",
}