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El Niño in the Pliocene

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Whether interannual variability in the Pacific Ocean was a feature of the warm Pliocene climate is debated. Variance in reconstructed eastern tropical Pacific surface temperatures provides strong support for persistent El Niño activity at this time.

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Figure 1: Low temperature gradients during the Pliocene epoch.

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  1. Anna S. von der Heydt and Henk A. Dijkstra are in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584CC Utrecht, The Netherlands,

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von der Heydt, A., Dijkstra, H. El Niño in the Pliocene. Nature Geosci 4, 502–503 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1224

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