Publication Date:
2024-01-09
Description:
During the warm early Pliocene (~4.5 to 3.0 million years ago), the most recent interval with a climate warmer than today, the eastern Pacific thermocline was deep and the average west-to-east sea surface temperature difference across the equatorial Pacific was only 1.5 ± 0.9°C, much like it is during a modern El Niño event. Thus, the modern strong sea surface temperature gradient across the equatorial Pacific is not a stable and permanent feature. Sustained El Niño-like conditions, including relatively weak zonal atmospheric (Walker) circulation, could be a consequence of, and play an important role in determining, global warmth.
Keywords:
130-806; 138-847; 138-847B; 138-847C; COMPCORE; Composite Core; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg130; Leg138; North Pacific Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP
Type:
Dataset
Format:
application/zip, 3 datasets
