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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

Influence of test size, water depth, and ecology on Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca,δ18O and δ13C in nine modern species of planktic foraminifers
Oliver Friedrich,
Ralf Schiebel,
Paul Wilson,
Syee Weldeab,
Christopher Beer,
Matthew Cooper,
& Jens Fiebig
, 2012 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 319-320 (2) , 133--145
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.002
Type: article
Biotic and geochemical evidence for a global latitudinal shift in ocean biogeochemistry and export productivity during the late Pliocene
Clara T. Bolton,
Kira T. Lawrence,
Samantha J. Gibbs,
Paul A. Wilson,
& Timothy D. Herbert
, 2011 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 308 (1-2) , 200--210
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.046
Type: article
Glacial–interglacial productivity changes recorded by alkenones and microfossils in late Pliocene eastern equatorial Pacific and Atlantic upwelling zones
Clara T. Bolton,
Kira T. Lawrence,
Samantha J. Gibbs,
Paul A. Wilson,
Laura C. Cleaveland,
& Timothy D. Herbert
, 2010 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 295 (3-4) , 401--411
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.014
Type: article
Technical Note: On methodologies for determining the size-normalised weight of planktic foraminifera
C.J. Beer,
R. Schiebel,
& P.A. Wilson
, 2010 , Biogeosciences , 7 (7) , 2193--2198
DOI: 10.5194/bg-7-2193-2010
Type: article
A low threshold for North Atlantic ice rafting from "low-slung slippery" late Pliocene ice sheets
Ian Bailey,
Clara T. Bolton,
Robert M. DeConto,
David Pollard,
Ralf Schiebel,
Paul A. Wilson,
&
, 2010 , Paleoceanography , 25 , PA1212--[14pp]
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001736
Type: article