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Sub-Orbital climate instability and its relation to Late pliocene intensification of Northen hemisphere glaciation, IODP sites 1308 and 1313

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Paul Wilson

Professor

Research interests

  • Greenhouse climates
  • Ice sheet instability
  •  Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity 

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

We work all around the world to understand how Earth's climate system works naturally. We use this to predict the ways in which it will respond to human-driven change in the future.

Research outputs

Response to “Comment on ‘The transition on North America from the warm humid Pliocene to the glaciated Quaternary traced by eolian dust deposition at a benchmark North Atlantic Ocean drill site’, by David Lang et al.”
David C. Lang,
Ian Bailey,
Paul A. Wilson,
Gavin L. Foster,
Clara T. Bolton,
Oliver Friedrich,
& Marcus Gutjahr
, 2014 , Quaternary Science Reviews , 103 , 179--183
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.015
Type: article
The transition on North America from the warm humid Pliocene to the glaciated Quaternary traced by eolian dust deposition at a benchmark North Atlantic Ocean drill site
David C. Lang,
Ian Bailey,
Paul A. Wilson,
Christopher J. Beer,
Clara T. Bolton,
Oliver Friedrich,
Cherry Newsam,
Megan R. Spencer,
Marcus Gutjahr,
Gavin L. Foster,
Matthew J. Cooper,
& J. Andrew Milton
, 2014 , Quaternary Science Reviews , 93 , 125--141
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.005
Type: article
An alternative suggestion for the Pliocene onset of major northern hemisphere glaciation based on the geochemical provenance of North Atlantic Ocean ice-rafted debris
Ian Bailey,
Georgia M. Hole,
Gavin L. Foster,
Paul A. Wilson,
Craig D. Storey,
Clive N. Trueman,
& Maureen E. Raymo
, 2013 , Quaternary Science Reviews , 75 , 181--194
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.004
Type: article
Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene changes in the North Atlantic Current and suborbital-scale sea-surface temperature variability
Oliver Friedrich,
Paul A. Wilson,
Clara T. Bolton,
Christopher J. Beer,
& Ralf Schiebel
, 2013 , Paleoceanography , 28 (2) , 274--282
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20029
Type: article
Flux and provenance of ice-rafted debris in the earliest Pleistocene sub-polar North Atlantic Ocean comparable to the Last Glacial Maximum
Ian Bailey,
Gavin L. Foster,
P.A. Wilson,
L. Jovane,
C.D. Storey,
C.N. Trueman,
& J. Becker
, 2012 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 341-344 , 222--233
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.034
Type: article