Haywood Alan M, Dowsett Harry J, Dolan Aisling M
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT, UK.
Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center, US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia 20192, USA.
Nat Commun. 2016 Feb 16;7:10646. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10646.
The mid-Pliocene Warm Period (mPWP) offers an opportunity to understand a warmer-than-present world and assess the predictive ability of numerical climate models. Environmental reconstruction and climate modelling are crucial for understanding the mPWP, and the synergy of these two, often disparate, fields has proven essential in confirming features of the past and in turn building confidence in projections of the future. The continual development of methodologies to better facilitate environmental synthesis and data/model comparison is essential, with recent work demonstrating that time-specific (time-slice) syntheses represent the next logical step in exploring climate change during the mPWP and realizing its potential as a test bed for understanding future climate change.
上新世中期温暖期（mPWP）为了解比当前更温暖的世界以及评估数值气候模型的预测能力提供了一个契机。环境重建和气候建模对于理解上新世中期温暖期至关重要，事实证明，这两个通常截然不同的领域之间的协同作用对于确认过去的特征以及进而增强对未来预测的信心至关重要。不断开发更好地促进环境综合和数据/模型比较的方法至关重要，最近的研究表明，特定时间（时间切片）的综合是探索上新世中期温暖期气候变化并发挥其作为理解未来气候变化试验台潜力的下一个合理步骤。
