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Overview

Alan M. Haywood is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their primary research contributions lie within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry as key subfields.

The scientist's work predominantly addresses topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate Variability and Models, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Alan M. Haywood has contributed extensively to academic literature, with multiple publications in prominent venues such as:

  • Climate of the past
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their research include Julia C. Tindall, Stephen J. Hunter, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Daniel J. Lunt, and Christian Stepanek.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Alan M. Haywood feature:

  • The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Lessons from a high-CO 2 world: an ocean view from ∼3 million years ago, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Assessing the impact of aquifer-eustasy on short-term Cretaceous sea-level, 2020, Cretaceous Research
  • Evaluation of Arctic warming in mid-Pliocene climate simulations, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Past terrestrial hydroclimate sensitivity controlled by Earth system feedbacks, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Mark Williams;Alan Haywood;Michael Ellis

  • Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

    Eline D. Lorenzen;David Nogués-Bravo;Ludovic Orlando;Jaco Weinstock

  • Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates.

    Kevin Burke;John Williams;Mark Chandler;Alan Haywood

  • The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

    I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

  • Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles and amphibians

    Miguel B. Araújo;David Nogués-Bravo;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Alan M. Haywood

  • PaleoClim, high spatial resolution paleoclimate surfaces for global land areas

    Jason L. Brown;Daniel J. Hill;Aisling M. Dolan;Ana C. Carnaval

  • Large-scale features of Pliocene climate: results from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project

    Alan Haywood;Daniel Hill;Daniel Hill;Aisling Dolan;Bette Otto-Bliesner

  • Global vegetation dynamics and latitudinal temperature gradients during the mid to Late Miocene (15.97-5.33 Ma)

    Matthew J. Pound;Matthew J. Pound;Matthew J. Pound;Alan M. Haywood;Ulrich Salzmann;James B. Riding

  • A new global biome reconstruction and data-model comparison for the Middle Pliocene

    Ulrich Salzmann;Alan Haywood;Daniel Lunt;Daniel Lunt;Paul Valdes

  • Deep-time Perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal from Computer Models and Biological Proxies

    M Williams;AM Haywood;FJ Gregory;Daniela N Schmidt

  • Modelling Pliocene warmth: contribution of atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere

    Alan M. Haywood;Paul J. Valdes

  • Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels.

    Daniel J. Lunt;Gavin L. Foster;Alan M. Haywood;Emma J. Stone

  • High-amplitude variations in North Atlantic sea surface temperature during the early Pliocene warm period

    Kira T. Lawrence;Timothy D. Herbert;Catherine M. Brown;Maureen E. Raymo

  • Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modelling and data

    Daniel J. Lunt;Daniel J. Lunt;Alan M. Haywood;Gavin A. Schmidt;Ulrich Salzmann;Ulrich Salzmann

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 2: Two interglacials, scientific objective and experimental design for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P. Harrison;Daniel J Lunt

  • The PRISM3D paleoenvironmental reconstruction

    Harry Dowsett;Marci Robinson;Alan Haywood;Ulrich Salzmann

  • Closure of the Panama Seaway during the Pliocene: implications for climate and Northern Hemisphere glaciation

    Daniel J. Lunt;Daniel J. Lunt;Paul J. Valdes;Alan Haywood;Alan Haywood;Ian C. Rutt

  • Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Reinhold Leinfelder;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 1: Overview and over-arching analysis plan

    Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P. Harrison;Alan M. Haywood

  • The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) paleoenvironmental reconstruction

    Harry J. Dowsett;Aisling M. Dolan;David Rowley;Robert Moucha

  • Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP): experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 2)

    A.M. Haywood;Harry J. Dowsett;Marci M. Robinson;Danielle K. Stoll

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Lunt
Daniel J. Lunt University of Bristol
Aisling M. Dolan
Aisling M. Dolan University of Leeds
Daniel J. Hill
Daniel J. Hill University of Leeds
Paul J. Valdes
Paul J. Valdes University of Bristol
Harry J. Dowsett
Harry J. Dowsett United States Geological Survey
Ulrich Salzmann
Ulrich Salzmann Northumbria University
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Zhongshi Zhang
Zhongshi Zhang NORCE Research
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Mark A. Chandler
Mark A. Chandler Columbia University

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