Dr Alice Marzocchi

Biography

My research combines numerical models of varying complexity and resolution with observations, to better understand past and present climate dynamics and simulate how these may change in the future. I am especially interested in the role played by the ocean in the climate system, with a focus on high-latitude processes, large-scale ocean circulation, ocean-sea-ice interactions, ocean carbon uptake, and striving for a multidisciplinary approach.

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[2023-present] Senior Research Scientist, NOC
[2018-2023] Research Scientist, NOC
[2016-2018] Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
[2012-2016] PhD (paleo)climate modelling, University of Bristol
[2010-2011] MSc Oceanography, University of Southampton
[2006-2009] BSc Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna

Committee Memberships

Co-vice-chair of UK SCOR National Committee
Antarctica InSync UK National Committee
Ocean Sciences Meeting vice-chair (2026, Glasgow) and co-chair (2028, Vancouver)
UK Challenger Society Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility (EDIA) Working Group

Projects

Ongoing projects:
CARB-SEA (PI) Under-ice carbon uptake in the Weddell Sea [NERC Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund]
ROCCA (Co-I) Role of the Overturning Circulation in Carbon Accumulation [NERC, US-UK Climate Consequences of Rapid Ocean Changes (CCROC)]
POLEMIX (Co-I, NOC-lead) Autonomous profiling observations to unravel the role of mixing in North Atlantic climate tipping points [ARIA Tipping Points]
AEROSTATS (Co-I) Aerial Experimental Remote sensing of Ocean Salinity, heat, advection and Thermohaline Shifts [ARIA Tipping Points]
MAMMA-MIA (PI) Marine Autonomy Modelling: Merging observAtions and siMulations for Interoperable Applications [NOC internal investment]
AtlantiS (National Capability) Atlantic Climate and Environment Strategic Science [NERC/UKRI]

Past projects:
TICTOC, Transient tracer-based Investigation of Circulation and Thermal Ocean Change
CLASS (National Capability) Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science
C-SIDE, Cycles of Sea-Ice Dynamics in the Earth system
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Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3753-5899; Abrahamsen, E. Povl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-5350; Aksenov, Yevgeny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6132-3434; Anderson, Madeline P.B.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5967-311X; Arrowsmith, Carol; Baker, Chelsey A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0840-2333; Barry, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1844-848X; Belcher, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9583-5910; Benavides, Mar; Bischof, Milo J.D.; Boland, Emma J.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2430-7763; Bowes, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0673-1934; Brearley, J. Alexander ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-8017; Brown, Peter J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1152-1114; Burson, Amanda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0729-3793; Buzzard, Sammie C.; Callaghan, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0273-6161; Coët, Arthur; Cook, Kathryn B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-3011; Coombs, Sarah; Evans, Chris D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7052-354X; Fielding, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3152-4742; Ford, Elaina; Fournier, Isabelle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0065-2338; Freer, Jennifer J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3947-9261; Garcia-Martin, E. Elena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4807-3287; Ghosh, V.R. Dipin; Giering, Sarah L.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-1876; Grant, Alanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7203-3260; Griffiths, Huw J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1764-223X; Hamilton, Ruta; Hendry, Katherine R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-5895; Hill, Simeon L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1441-8769; Hubot, Nathan; Hunter, Aidan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2621-9978; Johnston, Nadine M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2211-1492; Katavouta, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Kitson, Ezra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9168-7001; Leng, Melanie J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1115-5166; Lewis, Isabel H.; Linse, Katrin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3477-3047; Lofts, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3627-851X; Manno, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3337-6173; Martin, Adrian P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-8612; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Mawji, Edward; Mayor, Daniel J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-0041; McKenzie, Rebecca M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9928-8780; Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3876-7736; Meredith, Michael P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-7756; Munday, David R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1920-708X; Pereira, M. Glória ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3740-0019; O'Brien, Alexandra V.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8742-0010; Olszewska, Justyna P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4910-2206; Painter, Stuart C.; Palmieri, Julien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-5243; Patel, Shailee; Pickard, Amy E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-3720; Richt, Jessica J.R.; Rynders, Stefanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1334-4577; Sanders, Rachael N.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1936-8772; Saunders, Ryan A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-7222; Shepherd, Andrew; Slater, Thomas; Spears, Bryan M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0876-0405; Stowasser, Gabriele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-0772; Swiggs, Amy E.; Taylor, Laura R.; ten Hoopen, Petra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4242-4015; Thorpe, Sally E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-6955; Timms-Wilson, Tracey M.; van Soest, Maud A.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4656-515X; Venables, Hugh J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-8462; Wright, Zoe; Yool, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776; Young, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7069-6109. 2025 BIOPOLE: biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functioning in changing polar systems and their global impacts. Research Ideas & Outcomes, 11, e163757. 10.3897/rio.11.e163757

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2025

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2025

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Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; McCann, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4428-700X; Martin, Adrien C.H.; Marquez Martinez, José; Lavender, Sam; Buckingham, Christian; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Josey, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1683-8831. 2025 An Early Warning System for Tipping Points in the Greenland Ice Sheet and the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre: Exploring the Edge of the Possible with AEROSTATS. [Other] In: ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025, Vienna, Austria, 23 - 27 June 2025. (Unpublished)

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2025

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2024

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Acosta, R. P.; Burls, N. J.; Pound, M. J.; Bradshaw, C. D.; De Boer, A. M.; Herold, N.; Huber, M.; Liu, X.; Donnadieu, Y.; Farnsworth, A.; Frigola, A.; Lunt, D. J.; von der Heydt, A. S.; Hutchinson, D. K.; Knorr, G.; Lohmann, G.; Marzocchi, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Prange, M.; Sarr, A. C.; Li, X.; Zhang, Z.. 2023 A model‐data comparison of the hydrological response to Miocene warmth: Leveraging the MioMIP1 opportunistic multi‐model ensemble. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39 (1). 10.1029/2023PA004726

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2023

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Fisher, Ben; Hendry, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-5895; Damerell, Gillian; Baker, Chelsey A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0840-2333; Goddard-Dwyer, Millie; Joshi, Siddhi; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Nousek-McGregor, Anna; Robinson, Carol; Sieradzan, Katie; Tagliabue, Alessandro; Van Landeghem, Katrien. 2023 Challenger Society for Marine Science: Increasing Opportunity Through an Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility Working Group. Oceanography, 36 (4). 2, pp. 10.5670/oceanog.2024.110

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2023

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Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; McDonagh, E. L.; Gregory, J. M.; Wu, Q.; Marzocchi, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Zika, J. D.; Nurser, A. J. G.. 2022 Mechanisms of ocean heat uptake along and across isopycnals. Journal of Climate. 1-43. 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0793.1

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2022

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Crosta, Xavier; Kohfeld, Karen E.; Bostock, Helen C.; Chadwick, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-4564; Du Vivier, Alice; Esper, Oliver; Etourneau, Johan; Jones, Jacob; Leventer, Amy; Müller, Juliane; Rhodes, Rachel H.; Allen, Claire S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0938-0551; Ghadi, Pooja; Lamping, Nele; Lange, Carina; Lawler, Kelly-Anne; Lund, David; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Meissner, Katrin J.; Menviel, Laurie; Nair, Abhilash; Patterson, Molly; Pike, Jennifer; Prebble, Joseph G.; Riesselman, Christina; Sadatzki, Henrik; Sime, Louise C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9093-7926; Shukla, Sunil K.; Thöle, Lena; Vorrath, Maria-Elena; Xiao, Wenshen; Yang, Jiao. 2022 Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years, Part 1: A review of what proxy records tell us. Climate of the Past, 18 (8). 1729-1756. 10.5194/cp-18-1729-2022

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2022

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2021

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Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; McDonagh, Elaine; Gregory, Jonathan; Wu, Quran; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Nurser, George. 2021 Absorption of ocean heat along and across Isopycnals in HadCM3. In: EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, 19-30 April 2021.

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2021

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Zika, Jan D.; Gregory, Jonathan M.; McDonagh, Elaine L.; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455. 2021 Recent water mass changes reveal mechanisms of ocean warming. Journal of Climate. 1-52. 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0355.1

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2021

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Hirschi, Joël J.‐M.; Barnier, Bernard; Böning, Claus; Biastoch, Arne; Blaker, Adam T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5454-0131; Coward, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9111-7700; Danilov, Sergey; Drijfhout, Sybren; Getzlaff, Klaus; Griffies, Stephen M.; Hasumi, Hiroyasu; Hewitt, Helene; Iovino, Doroteaciro; Kawasaki, Takao; Kiss, Andrew E.; Koldunov, Nikolay; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Mecking, Jennifer V.; Moat, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8676-7779; Molines, Jean‐Marc; Myers, Paul G.; Penduff, Thierry; Roberts, Malcolm; Treguier, Anne‐Marie; Sein, Dmitry V.; Sidorenko, Dmitry; Small, Justin; Spence, Paul; Thompson, LuAnne; Weijer, Wilbert; Xu, Xiaobiao. 2020 The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in high resolution models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125 (4), e2019JC015522. 10.1029/2019JC015522

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2020

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Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Nurser, A. J. George; Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; McDonagh, Elaine. 2020 Pathways and time scales of ocean heat uptake and high-latitude ventilation. In: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, 16-21 February 2020.

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2020

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Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; McDonagh, Elaine L.; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Nurser, A.J. George. 2020 Signature of ocean warming at the mixed layer base. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (1). 10.1029/2019GL086269

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2020

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Rugenstein, Maria; Bloch-Johnson, Jonah; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako; Andrews, Timothy; Beyerle, Urs; Cao, Long; Chadha, Tarun; Danabasoglu, Gokhan; Dufresne, Jean-Louis; Duan, Lei; Foujols, Marie-Alice; Frölicher, Thomas; Geoffroy, Olivier; Gregory, Jonathan; Knutti, Reto; Li, Chao; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Mauritsen, Thorsten; Menary, Matthew; Moyer, Elisabeth; Nazarenko, Larissa; Paynter, David; Saint-Martin, David; Schmidt, Gavin A.; Yamamoto, Akitomo; Yang, Shuting. 2020 LongRunMIP: Motivation and design for a large collection of millennial-length AOGCM simulations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (12). 2551-2570. 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0068.1

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2020

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Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Flecker, Rachel; Lunt, Daniel J.; Krijgsman, Wout; Hilgen, Frits J.. 2019 Precessional drivers of late Miocene Mediterranean sedimentary sequences: African summer monsoon and Atlantic winter storm tracks. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34 (12). 1980-1994. 10.1029/2019PA003721

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2019

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Leventer, A.; Kohfeld, K.E.; Allen, Claire S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0938-0551; Crosta, X.; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Prebble, J.; Rhodes, R.H.. 2019 Cycle of sea ice dynamics in the Earth System working group. Past Global Changes Magazine, 27 (2). 71. 10.22498/pages.27.2.71

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2019

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2019

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2018

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2017

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Mayser, Jan Peter; Flecker, Rachel; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Kouwenhoven, Tanja J.; Lunt, Dan J.; Pancost, Rich D.. 2017 Precession driven changes in terrestrial organic matter input to the Eastern Mediterranean leading up to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 462. 199-211. 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.01.029

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2017

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Modestou, Sevasti; Simon, Dirk; Gutjahr, Marcus; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Kouwenhoven, Tanja J.; Ellam, Rob M.; Flecker, Rachel. 2017 Precessional variability of 87 Sr/86 Sr in the late Miocene Sorbas Basin: An interdisciplinary study of drivers of interbasin exchange. Paleoceanography, 32 (6). 531-552. 10.1002/2016PA003061

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2017

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Simon, Dirk; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Flecker, Rachel; Lunt, Daniel J.; Hilgen, Frits J.; Meijer, Paul Th.. 2017 Quantifying the Mediterranean freshwater budget throughout the late Miocene: New implications for sapropel formation and the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472. 25-37. 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.013

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2017

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Valdes, Paul J.; Armstrong, Edward; Badger, Marcus P. S.; Bradshaw, Catherine D.; Bragg, Fran; Crucifix, Michel; Davies-Barnard, Taraka; Day, Jonathan J.; Farnsworth, Alex; Gordon, Chris; Hopcroft, Peter O.; Kennedy, Alan T.; Lord, Natalie S.; Lunt, Dan J.; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Parry, Louise M.; Pope, Vicky; Roberts, William H. G.; Stone, Emma J.; Tourte, Gregory J. L.; Williams, Jonny H. T.. 2017 The BRIDGE HadCM3 family of climate models: HadCM3@Bristol v1.0. Geoscientific Model Development, 10 (10). 3715-3743. 10.5194/gmd-10-3715-2017

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2017

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Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Flecker, Rachel; van Baak, Christiaan G.C.; Lunt, Daniel J.; Krijgsman, Wout. 2016 Mediterranean outflow pump: An alternative mechanism for the Lago-mare and the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Geology, 44 (7). 523-526. 10.1130/G37646.1

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2016

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de la Vara, Alba; van Baak, Christiaan G.C.; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Grothe, Arjen; Meijer, Paul Th.. 2016 Quantitative analysis of Paratethys sea level change during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Marine Geology, 379. 39-51. 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.05.002

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2016

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von der Heydt, Anna S.; Dijkstra, Henk A.; van de Wal, Roderik S. W.; Caballero, Rodrigo; Crucifix, Michel; Foster, Gavin L.; Huber, Matthew; Köhler, Peter; Rohling, Eelco; Valdes, Paul J.; Ashwin, Peter; Bathiany, Sebastian; Berends, Tijn; van Bree, Loes G. J.; Ditlevsen, Peter; Ghil, Michael; Haywood, Alan M.; Katzav, Joel; Lohmann, Gerrit; Lohmann, Johannes; Lucarini, Valerio; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Pälike, Heiko; Baroni, Itzel Ruvalcaba; Simon, Dirk; Sluijs, Appy; Stap, Lennert B.; Tantet, Alexis; Viebahn, Jan; Ziegler, Martin. 2016 Lessons on Climate Sensitivity From Past Climate Changes. Current Climate Change Reports, 2 (4). 148-158. 10.1007/s40641-016-0049-3

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2016

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2015

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Flecker, Rachel; Krijgsman, Wout; Capella, Walter; de Castro Martíns, Cesar; Dmitrieva, Evelina; Mayser, Jan Peter; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Modestou, Sevasti; Ochoa, Diana; Simon, Dirk; Tulbure, Maria; van den Berg, Bas; van der Schee, Marlies; de Lange, Gert; Ellam, Robert; Govers, Rob; Gutjahr, Marcus; Hilgen, Frits; Kouwenhoven, Tanja; Lofi, Johanna; Meijer, Paul; Sierro, Francisco J.; Bachiri, Naima; Barhoun, Nadia; Alami, Abdelwahid Chakor; Chacon, Beatriz; Flores, Jose A.; Gregory, John; Howard, James; Lunt, Dan; Ochoa, Maria; Pancost, Rich; Vincent, Stephen; Yousfi, Mohamed Zakaria. 2015 Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change. Earth-Science Reviews, 150. 365-392. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.08.007

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2015

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Marzocchi, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Lunt, D. J.; Flecker, R.; Bradshaw, C. D.; Farnsworth, A.; Hilgen, F. J.. 2015 Orbital control on late Miocene climate and the North African monsoon: insight from an ensemble of sub-precessional simulations. Climate of the Past, 11 (10). 1271-1295. 10.5194/cp-11-1271-2015

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2015

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Colleoni, Florence; Masina, Simona; Negri, Alessandra; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574. 2012 Plio–Pleistocene high–low latitude climate interplay: A Mediterranean point of view. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 319-320. 35-44. 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.020

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2012

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