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Overview

Daniel J. Lunt is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

The main areas of study encompass Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses several topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Their recent publications include:

  • Past climates inform our future, 2020, Science
  • The Miocene: The Future of the Past, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity, 2020, Climate of the past
  • The Eocene-Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model-data comparisons, 2021, Climate of the past
  • Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated multiple times are:

  • Alex Farnsworth
  • Paul J. Valdes
  • Gerrit Lohmann
  • Zhongshi Zhang
  • Agatha M. de Boer

The main venues for their publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Nature Communications
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Best Publications

  • Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years.

    Gavin L. Foster;Dana L. Royer;Daniel J. Lunt

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

    Kevin Burke;John Williams;Mark Chandler;Alan Haywood

  • Past climates inform our future

    Jessica E. Tierney;Christopher J. Poulsen;Isabel P. Montañez;Tripti Bhattacharya

  • Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

    Charlotte L. O'Brien;Stuart A. Robinson;Richard D. Pancost;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate

    Eleni Anagnostou;Eleanor H. John;Kirsty M. Edgar;Gavin L. Foster

  • Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

    Miguel A. Martínez-Botí;Gavin L Foster;Tom B. Chalk;Eelco J Rohling

  • The Miocene: The Future of the Past

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

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

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

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

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

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

  • Imprints of glacial refugia in the modern genetic diversity of Pinus sylvestris

    Rachid Cheddadi;Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin;Thomas Litt;Louis François

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

    Alan M. Haywood;Paul J. Valdes

  • Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2

    Alex Farnsworth;Daniel J. Lunt;Stuart A. Robinson;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

  • Climate model response from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

    Ben Kravitz;Ken Caldeira;Olivier Boucher;Alan Robock

  • 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

  • Climate model and proxy data constraints on ocean warming across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

    Tom Dunkley Jones;Daniel J. Lunt;Daniela N. Schmidt;Andy Ridgwell

  • The BRIDGE HadCM3 family of climate models: HadCM3@Bristol v1.0

    Paul J. Valdes;Edward Armstrong;Marcus P. S. Badger;Marcus P. S. Badger;Catherine D. Bradshaw

  • 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

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

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

  • A model–data comparison for a multi-model ensemble of early Eocene atmosphere–ocean simulations: EoMIP

    Dan J Lunt;T. Dunkley Jones;T. Dunkley Jones;M. Heinemann;M. Huber

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E. J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H. A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan M. Haywood
Alan M. Haywood University of Leeds
Paul J. Valdes
Paul J. Valdes University of Bristol
Andy Ridgwell
Andy Ridgwell University of California, Riverside
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Daniel J. Hill
Daniel J. Hill University of Leeds
Ulrich Salzmann
Ulrich Salzmann Northumbria University
Zhongshi Zhang
Zhongshi Zhang NORCE Research
Aisling M. Dolan
Aisling M. Dolan University of Leeds
Harry J. Dowsett
Harry J. Dowsett United States Geological Survey
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen

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