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Caroline H. Lear is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Offshore Engineering and Technologies

Caroline H. Lear has published in several notable venues, with the most frequent including:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Climate of the Past
  • Nature Communications

Some of the recent papers connected to their research include:

  • The Miocene: The Future of the Past, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • The Eocene-Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model-data comparisons, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO 2, 2023, Science
  • Simulating Miocene Warmth: Insights From an Opportunistic Multi-Model Ensemble (MioMIP1), 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Caroline H. Lear include:

  • Helen K. Coxall
  • Sindia Sosdian
  • Daniel J. Lunt
  • Paul N. Pearson
  • Paul A. Wilson

Best Publications

  • Cenozoic deep-sea temperatures and global ice volumes from Mg/Ca in benthic foraminiferal calcite

    Caroline Helen Lear;H. Elderfield;P. A. Wilson

  • Rapid stepwise onset of Antarctic glaciation and deeper calcite compensation in the Pacific Ocean

    Helen Kathrine Coxall;Paul A. Wilson;Heiko Pälike;Caroline Helen Lear;Caroline Helen Lear

  • The Heartbeat of the Oligocene Climate System

    Heiko Pälike;Richard D. Norris;Jens O. Herrle;Jens O. Herrle;Paul A. Wilson

  • Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard;Paul A. Wilson;Heiko Pälike

  • Benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca-paleothermometry: a revised core-top calibration

    Caroline Helen Lear;Yair Rosenthal;Niall Slowey

  • The Miocene: The Future of the Past

    M. Steinthorsdottir;M. Steinthorsdottir;H. K. Coxall;A. M. de Boer;M. Huber

  • Cooling and ice growth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

    Caroline Helen Lear;Trevor R. Bailey;Paul Nicholas Pearson;Helen Kathrine Coxall

  • The evolution of pCO2, ice volume and climate during the middle Miocene

    Gavin L. Foster;Caroline H. Lear;James W.B. Rae

  • Late Eocene to early Miocene ice sheet dynamics and the global carbon cycle

    Caroline Helen Lear;Y. Rosenthal;Helen Kathrine Coxall;P. A. Wilson

  • Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research

    Yair Rosenthal;Suzanne Perron‐Cashman;Caroline H. Lear;Edouard Bard

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database

    Christopher J Hollis;Tom Dunkley Jones;Eleni Anagnostou;Eleni Anagnostou;Peter K Bijl

  • The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons

    David K. Hutchinson;Helen K. Coxall;Daniel J. Lunt;Margret Steinthorsdottir;Margret Steinthorsdottir

  • The closing of a seaway: ocean water masses and global climate change

    Caroline Helen Lear;Yair Rosenthal;James D. Wright

  • Constraining the evolution of Neogene ocean carbonate chemistry using the boron isotope pH proxy

    S. M. Sosdian;R. Greenop;R. Greenop;M. P. Hain;M. P. Hain;G. L. Foster

  • Extinction and environmental change across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in Tanzania

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Ian Kenneth McMillan;Bridget S. Wade;Tom Dunkley Jones

  • A Cenozoic seawater Sr/Ca record from benthic foraminiferal calcite and its application in determining global weathering fluxes

    Caroline Helen Lear;Henry Elderfield;P. A. Wilson

  • Cenozoic benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and Li/Ca records: Toward unlocking temperatures and saturation states

    Caroline Helen Lear;Elaine M. Mawbey;Yair Rosenthal

  • Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

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  • Cenozoic climate changes: A review based on time series analysis of marine benthic δ18O records

    Manfred Mudelsee;Torsten Bickert;Caroline Helen Lear;Gerrit lohmann

  • DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data

    Daniel J. Lunt;Fran J. Bragg;Wing Le Chan;David Karel Hutchinson

  • Temperature and carbonate ion effects on Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in benthic foraminifera: Aragonitic species Hoeglundina elegans

    Yair Rosenthal;Caroline Helen Lear;Delia W. Oppo;Braddock K. Linsley

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0)

    Daniel J. Lunt;Matthew Huber;Eleni Anagnostou;Michiel L. J. Baatsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen K. Coxall
Helen K. Coxall Stockholm University
Paul A. Wilson
Paul A. Wilson University of Southampton
Gavin L. Foster
Gavin L. Foster University of Southampton
Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen
Bridget S. Wade
Bridget S. Wade University College London
Aradhna Tripati
Aradhna Tripati University of California, Los Angeles
Richard D. Norris
Richard D. Norris University of California, San Diego
Luca Lanci
Luca Lanci University of Urbino
Isabella Raffi
Isabella Raffi University of Chieti-Pescara
Yair Rosenthal
Yair Rosenthal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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