A European monsoon-like climate in a warmhouse world.

ABSTRACT: The middle Eocene warmhouse period (45 million years ago) featured atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations equivalent to those projected under high future emission scenarios. Seasonal- to weather timescale climate reconstructions from this period can provide critical insight into the impact of Anthropogenic warming on intra-annual variability in temperature and precipitation. Here, we combine daily-scale reconstructions of the evolution of temperature and the water cycle in western Europe based on stable oxygen and clumped isotope analyses on the fastest-growing gastropod known in the fossil record: Campanile giganteum. Our dataset shows that the middle Eocene of western Europe featured monsoon-like conditions, with seawater temperatures of ~24 °C during mild and wet winters, >30 °C duri

SUBMITTER: Van Horebeek N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12569273 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature