Insights into greener Miocene biomes and globally enhanced terrestrial productivity from fossil leaves by Tammo Reichgelt, Christopher K. West

“…As such, they are an important way to understand terrestrial climate analogues for future warmer climate scenarios. Here, we present paleoclimate, productivity, and biome reconstructions of 108 globally distributed Miocene leaf megafloras using a standardized method based on leaf physiognomy. …”
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A data-consistent model of the last glaciation in the Alps achieved with physics-driven AI by Tancrède P. M. Leger, Guillaume Jouvet, Sarah Kamleitner, Jürgen Mey, Frédéric Herman, Brandon D. Finley, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Andreas Vieli, Andreas Henz, Samuel U. Nussbaumer

“…Our results have implications for better estimating former ice velocities, ice temperature, basal conditions, erosion processes, and paleoclimate in the Alps. This study demonstrates that physics-informed machine learning can help overcome the bottleneck of high-resolution glacier modelling and better test parameterisations, both of which are required to accurately describe complex topographies and ice dynamics.…”
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Mid-Late Holocene Stalagmite δ18O and δ13C Records in Naduo Cave, Guizhou Province, China by Jialu Wang

“…The study of global climate change has received increasing attention from all countries and fields worldwide. Paleoclimate research is an important way to understand past global change and environmental evolution and to simulate and predict future climate development. …”
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Climate reconstruction of the Little Ice Age maximum extent of the tropical Zongo Glacier using a distributed energy balance model by Autin, Philémon, Sicart, Jean Emmanuel, Rabatel, Antoine, Hock, Regine, Jomelli, Vincent

“…We carried out sensitivity analyses of the annual surface mass balance to different physically coherent climate scenarios constrained by information taken from paleoclimate proxies and sensitivity studies of past glacier advances. …”
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Organic-Inorganic Geochemical Characteristics of the Upper Permian Pusige Formation in a High-Saline Lake Basin, Tarim Basin: Implications for Provenance, Paleoenvironments, and Or... by Jingbin Wang, Zhiliang He, Dongya Zhu, Zhiqian Gao, Xiaowei Huang, Quanyou Liu

“…., Beq, Sr/Ba, and B/Ga) indicated the typical high-saline lacustrine water body, in which redox state was the oxic-dysoxic as suggested by multiple indicators. Many paleoclimate and weathering proxies suggest a dominant semiarid condition and low weathering degree in the Yecheng-Hetian Sag, which led to that weathered felsic rocks from the West Kunlun Orogen to the southwest of basin were quickly transported into the lake basin. …”
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Reconstruction of Polyhalite Ore-Formed Temperature from Late Middle Pleistocene Brine Temperature Research in Kunteyi Playa, Western China by Jun Li, Wenxia Li, Weiliang Miao, Qiliang Tang, Yongshou Li, Xiaolong Yuan, Qingyu Hai, Yongsheng Du, Xiying Zhang

“…Brine temperature of other salt lakes in QB and paleoclimate characteristics of the study area were combined. …”
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Complex Study of Settlements Dating from the Paleolithic to Medieval Period in the Ural Mountains on the Border of Europe and Asia by Valentina Prikhodko, Nikita Savelev, Vyacheslav Kotov, Sergey Nikolaev, Evgeny Ruslanov, Mikhail Rumyantsev, Elena Manakhova

“…During the ancient settlements’ development, a favorable paleoclimate was noted based on the data cited. This contributed to the spread of productive paleolandscapes, ensuring the development of domestic cattle breeding and agriculture.…”
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Ice-proximal sea ice reconstruction in the Powell Basin, Antarctica, since the Last Interglacial by W. W. Khoo, J. Müller, J. Müller, J. Müller, O. Esper, W. Xiao, C. Stepanek, P. Gierz, G. Lohmann, G. Lohmann, G. Lohmann, W. Geibert, J. Hefter, G. Mollenhauer, G. Mollenhauer, G. Mollenhauer

“…Finally, despite similar findings between the proxy and model data, notable differences persist between both interglacials – emphasizing the necessity for different Antarctic ice sheet configurations to be employed and more robust paleoclimate data to enhance climate model performance close to the Antarctic continental margin.…”
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Last-millennium volcanic forcing and climate response using SO₂ emissions by L. R. Marshall, L. R. Marshall, L. R. Marshall, A. Schmidt, A. Schmidt, A. Schmidt, A. P. Schurer, N. L. Abraham, N. L. Abraham, L. J. Lücke, R. Wilson, K. J. Anchukaitis, G. C. Hegerl, B. Johnson, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, E. C. Brady, M. Khodri, K. Yoshida

“…Averaged across all large-magnitude eruptions, we find similar Northern Hemisphere (NH) summer cooling compared with other last-millennium climate simulations from the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Phase 4 (PMIP4), run with both <span class="inline-formula">SO₂</span> emissions and prescribed forcing, and a continued overestimation of surface cooling compared with tree-ring reconstructions. …”
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A sub-fossil coral Sr∕Ca record documents northward shifts of the Tropical Convergence Zone in the eastern Indian Ocean by M. Pfeiffer, H. Takayanagi, H. Takayanagi, L. Reuning, T. K. Watanabe, T. K. Watanabe, S. Ito, D. Garbe-Schönberg, T. Watanabe, T. Watanabe, T. Watanabe, C.-C. Wu, C.-C. Shen, C.-C. Shen, J. Zinke, G.-J. A. Brummer, S. Y. Cahyarini

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Global Warming: The Balance of Evidence and Its Policy Implications by Charles Keller

“…Of particular interest are advances that seem to explain why satellites do not see as much warming as surface instruments, how we are getting a good idea of recent paleoclimates, and why the 20th century temperature record was so complex. …”
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Analysis of Sedimentary Environment Conditions for Lacustrine Fine-Grained Sedimentary Rocks and Its Control of Lithofacies Development: A Case Study of the Lower Submember of Memb... by Jun Peng, Ledan Yu, Tianyu Xu, Yubin Wang, Haodong Han

“…From the bottom up, it experienced the semideep, deep, and deep/semideep waters under the relatively dry-cold/relatively warm-wet, warm-wet, and warm-wet/relatively warm-wet paleoclimates, respectively. Correspondingly, the paleoredox transited three stages from reducibility to high reducibility to high reducibility/reducibility; the paleosalinity changed from saline water to brackish water to brackish/saline water. …”
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