Paleoclimate Working Group Meeting 2026

Welcome and logistics

Co-Chairs

Can Precipitation Alone Reshape the Southern Ocean Carbon Sink?  Evidence from PlioMIP2 Climate Simulations

Ilana Wainer

Isolating the climate response to West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss and Northern Hemisphere vegetation changes of the mid-Pliocene 

Michelle Dvorak (Remote)

Neogene Southwestern U.S. Temperatures Paced by Global Climate 

Jeremy Rugenstein (Remote)

Investigating effective radiative forcing with Eocene and preindustrial climate background

Chunyu Yang (Remote)

The Response of ENSO Diversity and Asymmetry to Mid-Holocene Climate: Revealed by Proxy Records and Isotope-Enabled Earth System Model Simulations

Go Sato (Remote)

BREAK

CGD Seminar: The Green Sahara as a Driver of Holocene Climate Dynamics

Victoria Todd (Remote)

LUNCH 

Insights from CCSM3 and CESM1.2 on contrasting interpretations of the ITCZ in Tropical South America since the LGM

Bronwen Konecky (Remote)

Atmosphere-only simulations over the last millennium constrained by proxies 

Dominik Stiller (Remote)

TIPMIP-OCEAN experimental protocol phase 1: Tipping dynamics of the AMOC

Aixue Hu

The Water Isotope Model Intercomparison Project (WISO-MIP): First results and a call for community engagement

Sylvia Dee (Remote)

Emulating Water Isotopes in Coupled Earth System Models

Feng Zhu

A New Set of Recipes for CESM3 for Near-Modern Paleoclimate Applications & Wrap-up Discussion

Jiang Zhu

ADJOURN