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Overview

Jessica E. Tierney is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science.

The subfields they work within include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography. Their work addresses diverse topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Climate variability and models, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Tree-ring climate responses, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • Past climates inform our future, 2020, Science
  • Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited, 2020, Nature
  • Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum, 2021, Nature
  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data

Frequent co-authors in their research include Jiang Zhu, Christopher J. Poulsen, Daniel J. Lunt, Tripti Bhattacharya, and Gordon N. Inglis. Their work appears regularly in various publication venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Climate of the Past, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Scientific Data.

Jessica E. Tierney is also the author of a book titled The TEX86 Paleotemperature Proxy, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell;Yongsong Huang;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Past climates inform our future

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

  • Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum.

    Matthew B Osman;Jessica E Tierney;Jiang Zhu;Robert Tardif

  • Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited

    Jessica Erin Tierney;Jiang Zhu;Jiang Zhu;Jonathan King;Steven Brewster Malevich

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara.

    Jessica E. Tierney;Francesco S. R. Pausata;Peter B. deMenocal

  • Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents

    Nerilie J. Abram;Helen V. McGregor;Jessica E. Tierney;Jessica E. Tierney;Michael N. Evans

  • Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean

    Jessica E. Tierney;Jason E. Smerdon;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Richard Seager

  • Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments

    J.E. Tierney;J.E. Tierney;J.M. Russell;H. Eggermont;H. Eggermont;E.C. Hopmans

  • A Bayesian, spatially-varying calibration model for the TEX86 proxy

    Jessica E. Tierney;Martin P. Tingley;Martin P. Tingley

  • Distributions of branched GDGTs in a tropical lake system: Implications for lacustrine application of the MBT/CBT paleoproxy.

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell

  • Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Jessica Erin Tierney;Peter B. deMenocal

  • BAYSPLINE: A New Calibration for the Alkenone Paleothermometer

    Jessica E. Tierney;Martin P. Tingley

  • Tropical sea surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives

    Jessica E. Tierney;Nerilie J. Abram;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Michael N. Evans

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: Preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations

    Masa Kageyama;Sandy P. Harrison;Marie L. Kapsch;Marcus Lofverstrom

  • Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Yongsong Huang

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500

    Jessica E. Tierney;Marc T. Mayes;Marc T. Mayes;Natacha Meyer;Christopher Johnson;Christopher Johnson

  • Past and future rainfall in the Horn of Africa

    Jessica E. Tierney;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Peter B. deMenocal

  • 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 effect of sea level on glacial Indo-Pacific climate

    Pedro N. DiNezio;Jessica E. Tierney

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B deMenocal
Peter B deMenocal Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jiang Zhu
Jiang Zhu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Christopher J. Poulsen
Christopher J. Poulsen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Kevin J. Anchukaitis University of Arizona
James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University
Sarah J. Feakins
Sarah J. Feakins University of Southern California
Gregory J. Hakim
Gregory J. Hakim University of Washington
Alan M. Haywood
Alan M. Haywood University of Leeds
Allegra N. LeGrande
Allegra N. LeGrande Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Darrell S. Kaufman
Darrell S. Kaufman Northern Arizona University

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