Below is a list of our peer-reviewed journal articles. Follow links to find the full manuscript.

In Review/Revision
  • Acosta, R.P., Ladant, J.-B., Zhu, J., and Poulsen, C.J. (in revision) Evolution of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone and the South American and African monsoons over the past 95 Ma and their impact on tropical rainforests, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.
  • Lynch, B., Yanites, B., *Shen, H., and Poulsen, C.J. (in review) On the relationship between climate, topography, and discharge-driven fluvial incision using a coupled climate-landscape evolution model, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface.
  • Macarewich, S.I. and Poulsen, C.J. (in review) Glacial-interglacial controls on ocean circulation and temperature during the Permo-Carboniferous, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

2022
  • Chen, J., Montañez, I.P., Zhang, S., Isson, T.T., *Macarewich, S.I., Planavsky, N.J., Zhang, F., Rauzi, S., Davia, K., Yao, L., Qi, Y., Wang, Y., Fan, J., Poulsen, C.J., Anbar, A., Shen, S. Wang, X. (accepted) Marine anoxia linked to abrupt global warming during Earth’s penultimate icehouse, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Gaskell, D.E., Huber, M., O’Brien, C.L., Inglis, G.N., †Acosta, R.P., Poulsen, C.J., Hull, P.M. (2022) The latitudinal temperature gradient and its state-dependence as inferred from foraminiferal d18O over the past 95 Ma, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, 11, 10.1073/pnas.2111332119.
  • Inglis, G.N., Toney, J., Zhu, J., Poulsen, C.J., Rohl, U., Jamieson, S., Pross, J., Cramwinckel, M., Krishnan, S., Pagani, M., Bijl, P., Bendle, J. (2022) Enhanced carbon export from East Antarctica during the early Eocene, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, e2021PA004348, 10.1029/2021PA004348.
  • Thompson, A.J., Zhu, J., Poulsen, C.J., Tierney, J.E., and Skinner, C.B. (2022) Holocene thermal maximum driven by Northern Hemisphere vegetation change, Science Advances.
  • Zhang, Y., DeBoer, A., Lunt, D., Hutchinson, D., Ross, P., van de Flierdt, T., Sexton, P., Coxall, H., Steinig, S., Ladant, J.-B., Zhu, J., Donnadieu, Y., Zhang, Z.-S., Chan, W.-L., Abe-Ouchi, A., Niezgodzki, I., Ohmann, G., Knorr, G., Poulsen, C.J., Huber, M. (2022) Early Eocene ocean meridional overturning circulation: the roles of atmospheric forcing and straight geometry, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, 3, 10.1029/2021PA004329.
  • Zhu, J., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Brady, E.C., Gettelman, A., Bacmeister, J.T., Neale, R.B., Poulsen, C.J., Shaw, J.K., McGraw, Z.S., Kay, J.E. (2022) LGM paleoclimate constraints inform cloud parameterizations and equilibrium climate sensitivity in CESM2, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14 (4), e2021MS002776, 10.1029/2021MS002776.
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2021
  • Ao, H., Rohling, E.J., Zhang, R., Holbourn, A.E., Roberts, A.P., †Ladant, J.-B., Dupont-Nivet, G., Kuhnt, W., Xu, Y., Liu, Q., Liu, Z., Dekkers, M.J., Poulsen, C.J., Licht, A., Chiang, J.C.H., Liu, X., Wu, G., Ma, C., Weijian, Z., Wu, F., Jin, Z., Li, X., Peng, X., Sun, Q., Sun, Q., Zhang, P., Qiang, X., An, Z. (2021) Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, Nature Communications, 12, 6935, 10.1038/s41467-021-27054-5.
  • Aron, P., Levin, N.E., Beverly, E.J., Huth, T.E., Passey, B.H., Pelletier, E.M., Poulsen, C.J., Winkelstern, I.Z., Yarian, D.A. (2021) Triple oxygen isotopes in the water cycle, Chemical Geology. 120026, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.120026.
  • Aron, P., Poulsen, C.J., Fiorella, R., Levin, N.E., Acosta, R.P., Yanites, B., Cassel, E., (2021) Variability and controls on d18O, d-excess, and D’17O in southern Peruvian precipitation, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 126 (23), 10.1029/2020JD034009.
  • Du, X., Hendy, I., Hinnov, L., Brown, E., Zhu, J., and Poulsen, C.J. (2021) High-resolution interannual precipitation reconstruction of Southern California: Implications for Holocene ENSO evolution, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 554, 116670, doi://10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116670.
  • Kageyama, M., Harrison, S.P., Kapsch, M.-L., Lofverstrom, M., Lora, J.M., Mikolajewicz, U., Sherriff-Tadano, S., Vadsaria, T., Abe-Ouchi, A., Bouttes, N., Chandan, D., Gregoire, L.J., Ivanovic, R.F., LeGrande, A.N., Lhardy, F., Lohmann, G., Morozova, P.A., Ohgaito, R., Paul, A., Peltier, W.R., Poulsen, C.J., Quiquet, A., Roche, D.M., Shi, X., Schmittner, A., Tierney, J.E., Valdes, P.J., Volodin, E., Zhu, J. (2021) The PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3-CMIP5 simulations, Climate of the Past. doi:10.5194/cp-2019-169.
  • Liu, Z., Risis, C., Codron, F., He, X., Poulsen, C.J., Chen, D., Li, S., Bowen, G.J. (2021) Acceleration of western Arctic sea ice loss linked to the Pacific North American Pattern, Nature Communications, 12, 1519, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21830-z.
  • Lunt, D.J., Bragg, F., Chan, W.-L., Hutchinson, D., Ladant, J.-B., Niezgodzki, I., Steinig, S., Zhang, Z., Zhu, J., Abe-Ouchi, A., de Boer, A., Coxall, H., Donnadieu, Y., Knorr, G., Langebroek, P., Lohmann, G., Poulsen, C.J., Sepulchre, P., Tierney, J., Valdes, P., Dunkley Jones, T., Hollis, C., Huber, M., Otto-Bliesner, B. (2021) DeepMIP: Model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data, Climate of the Past, 17, 203-227, doi:10.5194/cp-2019-149.
  • Macarewich, S.I., Poulsen, C.J., and Montañez, I.P. (2021) Simulation of oxygen isotopes and circulation in a late Carboniferous epicontinental sea with implications for proxy records, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 559, 116770.
  • Matthaeus, W.J., *Macarewich, S.I., Richey, J.D., Wilson, J.P., McElwain, J.C., Montañez, I.P., DiMichele, W.A., Hren, M.T., Poulsen, C.J., White, J.D. (2021) Freeze tolerance influenced forest cover and hydrology during the Pennsylvanian, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(42), doi:/10.1073/pnas.2025227118.
  • Osman, M.B., Tierney, J.E., Zhu, Z., Tardif, R., Hakim, G.J., King, J., and Poulsen, C.J. (2021) Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature, 599, 239-244, 10.1038/s41586-021-03884-4.
  • Richey, J.D., Montañez, I.P., Wilson, J.P., DiMichele, W.A., Matthaeus, W.J., Poulsen, C.J., Macarewich, S.I., Looy, C.V. (2021) Modeled physiological mechanisms for observed changes in the late Paleozoic plant fossil record, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562, doi:/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110056.
  • Shen, H., Lynch, B., Poulsen, C.J., and Yanites, B.J. (2021) A modeling framework for simulating orogen-scale climate-erosion coupling, Computers and Geosciences. 146, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2020/104625.
  • Thompson, A., Tabor, C.R., Poulsen, C.J., and Skinner, C.B. (2021) Water isotopic contraints on the enhancement of the mid-Holocene West African monsoon, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 554, 116677, doi://10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116677.
  • Zhu, J., Otto-Bliesner, B., Brady, E., Poulsen, C.J., Tierney, J.E., Lofverstrom, M., DiNezio, P., (2021) Assessment of equilibrium climate sensitivity of the Community Earth System Model version 2 through simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum, Geophysical Research Letters. GRL61831, doi:/10.1029/2020GL091220.
  • Zhu, J. and Poulsen, C.J. (2021) Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate forcing and ocean dynamical feedback and their implications for estimating climate sensitivity, Climate of the Past, 17, 253-267, doi:10.5194/cp-17-253-2021.
2020
  • Ao, H., Dupont-Nivet, G., Rohling, E.J., Zhang, P., Ladant, J.-B., Roberts, A.P., Licht, A., Liu, Q., Liu, Z., Dekkers, M.J., Coxall, H.K., Jin, Z., Huang, C., Xioa, G., Poulsen, C.J., Barbolini, N., Meijer, N., Sun., Q., Qiang, Z., Yao, J., and An, Z. (2020), Orbital climate variability on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau across the Eocene-Oligocene transition, Nature Communications, 11, 5249, doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18824-8.
  • Aron, P.G., Poulsen, C.J., Matheny, A.M., Fiorella, R.P., and Veverica, T. (2020) An isotopic approach to quantify transpiration in a mixed deciduous forest, Ecohydrology. doi:10.1002/eco.229/16788367.
  • Fan, M., Feng, R., Geissman, J., and Poulsen, C.J. (2020) Late Paleogene emergence of a North American loess plateau, Geology, 48, doi:10.1130/G47102.1.
  • Haynes, S., MacLeod, K., Ladant, J.B., Vande Guchte, A., Ashgarian Rostami, M., Poulsen, C.J., and Martin, E., (2020) Constraining sources and relative flow rates of bottom waters in the Late Cretaceous Pacific Ocean, Geology, 48, doi:10.1130.G47197.1.
  • Ladant, J.-B., Poulsen, C.J., Fluteau, F., Tabor, C.R., MacLeod, K.G., Martin, E.E., Haynes, S.J., and Rostami, M.A. (2020) Paleogeographic controls on the evolution of Late Cretaceous ocean circulation, Climate of the Past, 16, 973-1006, doi:10.5194/cp-16-973-2020.
  • Niu, U., Castro, C., Hall, C.M., Gingerich, S.B., Poulsen, C.J., Lohmann, K.C., and Aron, P. (2020) Groundwater sources in the island of Maui, Hawaii - A combined noble gas, stable isotope, and tritium approach, Applied Geochemistry, 117, doi:10.106/j.apgeochem.2020.104587.
  • Skinner, C.B., Lora, J.M., Payne, A.E., and Poulsen, C.J. (2020) Atmospheric river changes shaped mid-latitude hydroclimate since the mid-Holocene, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 541, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116293.
  • Tierney, J.E., Jiang, Z., King, J., Malevich, S.B., Hakim, G.J., and Poulsen, C.J. (2020) Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited, Nature, 584, 569-573, doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2617-x.
  • Tierney, J.E., Poulsen, C.J., Montañez, I.P. et al. (2020) Past climates inform our future, Science, 370, 6517, doi://10.1126/science.aay3701.
  • White, J.D., Montañez, I.P., Wilson, J.P., Poulsen, C.J., McElwain, J.C., DiMichele, W.A., Hren, M.T., Macarewich, S., Richey, J., and Matthaeus, W. (2020) Paleo-BGC to simulate the dynamic response of Late Pennsylvanian plants to elevated O2 and aridification, American Journal of Science, 320(7), 547-598, doi:10.2475/09.2020.01.
  • Wilson, J.P., White, J.D., Montañez, I.P., DiMichele, W.A., McElwain, J.C., Poulsen, C.J., and Hren, M.T. (2020) Carboniferous plant physiology breaks the mold, New Phytologist, 227, 667-679, doi:10.1111/nph.16440.
  • Windler, G., Tierney, J.E., Zhu, J., and Poulsen, C.J. (2020) Unravelling glacial hydroclimate in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool: perspectives from water isotopes, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35 (12), doi:10.1029/2020PA003985.
  • Zhu, J. and Poulsen, C.J. (2020) On the increase of climate sensitivity and cloud feedback with warming in the Community Atmosphere Models, Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (18), doi:10.1029/2020GL089143.
  • Zhu, J., Poulsen, C.J., Otto-Bliesner, B.L. (2020) High climate sensitivity in CMIP6 models not supported by paleoclimate. Nature Climate Change, 10, 378-379, doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0764-6.
  • Zhu, J., Poulsen, C.J., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Liu, Z.; Brady, E.C., and Noone, D.C. (2020) Simulation of early Eocene water isotopes using an Earth system model and its implication for past climate reconstruction, Earth and Planetary Science Letters., 537, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116164.

2019​
  • Aron, P.G., Poulsen, C.J., Fiorella, R.P., and Matheny, A.M. (2019) Forest canopy water cycling in northern Michigan revealed by stable water isotopes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124, 2958-2975, doi:10.1029/2019JG005118.
  • Liu, Z., Jian, Z., Poulsen, C.J., and Zhao, L. (2019) Isotopic evidence for twentieth-century weakening of the Pacific Walker Circulation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 507. 85-93, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.002.
  • Shen, H. and Poulsen, C.J. (2019) Precipitation d18O on the Himalaya-Tibet orogen and its relationship to surface elevation, Climate of the Past, 15, 169-187, doi:10.5194/cp-15-169-2019. 
  • Thompson, A.J., Skinner, C.B., Poulsen, C.J., and Zhu, J. (2019) Modulation of mid-Holocene African rainfall by dust aerosol direct and indirect effects, Geophysical Research Letters, 14, doi:10.1029/2018GL081225.
  • Zhu, J., Poulsen, C.J., (2019) Quantifying the cloud droplet-size feedback in an Earth System Model, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2019GL083829.
  • Zhu, J., Poulsen, C.J., and Tierney, J., (2019) Simulation of Eocene extreme warmth and high climate sensitivity through low-cloud feedbacks, Science Advances, 5: eeax1874, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax1874.

2018
  • Aron, P.G. and Poulsen, C.J., (2018) Cenozoic mountain building and climate evolution, in Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity, Hoorn, C., Perrigo, A., and Antonelli, A., (eds), New York, NY: Wiley Press, 111-121.
  • Fiorella, R.P., Poulsen, C.J., and Matheny, A.M., (2018) Seasonal patterns of water vapor cycling in a deep, continental mountain valley from stable water vapor isotopes, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. doi: 10.1029/2017JD028093.
  • Skinner, C.B., Poulsen, C.J., and Mankin, J.S., (2018) Amplification of heat extremes by plant CO2 physiological forcing, Nature Communications, 1094, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03472-w.
2017
  • Garzione, C.N., McQuarrie, N., Perez, N.D., Ehlers, T.A., Beck, S.L., Karr, N., Eichelberger, N., Chapman, A.D., Ward, K.M., Ducea, M.N., Lease, R.O., Poulsen, C.J., Wagner, L.S., Horton, B.K., Saylor, J.E., and Zandt, G., (2017) The tectonic evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and geodynamic implications for the growth of plateaus, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 45, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020612.
  • Liu, Z., Tang, Y., Jian, Z., Poulsen, C.J., Welker, J.M., and Bowen, G.J., (2017) Pacific North American circulation pattern links external forcing and North American hydroclimatic change over the past millenium, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences., doi: 10.1073/pnas.1618201114.
  • Lunt, D. J., Huber, M., Anagnostou, E., Baatsen, M. L. J., Caballero, R., DeConto, R., Dijkstra, H. A., Donnadieu, Y., Evans, D., Feng, R., Foster, G. L., Gasson, E., von der Heydt, A. S., Hollis, C. J., Inglis, G. N., Jones, S. M., Kiehl, J., Kirtland Turner, S., Korty, R. L., Kozdon, R., Krishnan, S., Ladant, J.-B., Langebroek, P., Lear, C. H., LeGrande, A. N., Littler, K., Markwick, P., Otto-Bliesner, B., Pearson, P., Poulsen, C. J., Salzmann, U., Shields, C., Snell, K., Stärz, M., Super, J., Tabor, C., Tierney, J. E., Tourte, G. J. L., Tripati, A., Upchurch, G. R., Wade, B. S., Wing, S. L., Winguth, A. M. E., Wright, N. M., Zachos, J. C., and Zeebe, R. E. (2017) The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0), Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 889-901, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-889-2017.
  • Matheny, A.M., Fiorella, R.P., Bohrer, G., Poulsen, C.J., Morin, T.H., Wunderlich, A., Vogel, C.S., and Curtis, P.S., (2017) Contrasting strategies of hydraulic control in two co-dominant temperate tree species, Ecohydrology, doi:10.1002/eco.1815.
  • Skinner, C.B., Poulsen, C.J., Chadwick, R., Diffenbaugh, N.S., and Fiorella, R.P. (2017) The role of plant CO2 physiological forcing in shaping future daily-scale precipitation, Journal of Climate. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0603.1.
  • Wilson, J., Montanez, I.P., White, J.D., DiMichele, W.A., McElwain, J.C., Poulsen, C.J., and Hren, M.T., (2017) Dynamic Carboniferous tropical forests: new views of plant function and potential for physiological forcing of climate, New Phytologist, 215, 1333-1353, doi:10.1111/nph.14700.
2016
  • Feng, R. and Poulsen, C.J. (2016) Refinement of Eocene lapse rates, fossil-leaf altimetry, and North American Cordillera surface elevation estimates, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 436, 130-141. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.12.022.
  • Feng, R., Poulsen, C.J., and Werner, M., (2016) Tropical circulation intensification and tectonic extension recorded by Neogene terrestrial d18O records of the western U.S., Geology, doi:10.1130/G38212.1.
  • Ghosh, P., Vasiliev, M.V., Ghosh, P., Sarkar, S., Ghosh, S., Yamada, K., Ueno, Y., Yoshida, N., and Poulsen, C.J., (2016) Tracking migration of the Indian continent using clumped isotope technique in Phanerozoic soil carbonates, Nature Scientific Reports, 6, 22187, doi:10.1038/srep22187.
  • Li, J., Ehlers, T.A., Mutz, S., Steger, C., Paeth, H., Werner, M., Poulsen, C.J., and Feng, R., (2016) Modern precipitation d18O and trajectory analysis over the Himalaya-Tibet orogen from ECHAM5-wiso, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JD024818.
  • Montanez, I.P., McElwain, J.C., Poulsen, C.J., White, J.D., DiMichele, W.A., Wilson, J., Griggs, G., Hren, M.T., (2016) Climate, pCO2, and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial-interglacial cycles, Nature Geoscience, 9, 824-828,​doi:10.1038/ngeo2822.
  • Mutz, S.G., Ehlers, T.A., Li, J., Steger, C., Paeth, H., Werner, M., and Poulsen, C.J. (2016) Precipitation d18O over the Himalaya-Tibet orogen from ECHAM5-wiso simulations: Statistical analysis of temperature, topography, and precipitation, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JD024856.
  • Petersen, S.V., Tabor, C.R., Lohmann, K.C., Poulsen, C.J., Meyer, K.W., Carpenter, S.J., Matsunaga, K., Smith, S.Y., and Sheldon, N.D., (2016) Temperature and salinity of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, Geology, doi:10.1130/G38311.1.
  • Poulsen, C.J., Tabor, C.R., and White, J.D. (2016). Response to comment on: "Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations", Science, 353 (6295), 132, doi:10.1126/science.aad8550.
  • Skinner, C.B. and Poulsen, C.J. (2016) The role of tropical-extratropical interactions in enhancing Saharan rainfall during the African Humid Period, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 349-358. doi:10.1002/2015GL066318.
  • Tabor, C.R., and Poulsen, C.J. (2016) Simulating the mid-Pleistocene transition through regolith removal, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 434, 231-240. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.034.
  • Tabor, C.R., Poulsen, C.J., Lunt, D.J., Rosenbloom, N.A., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Markwick, P.J., Brady, E.C., and Farnsworth, A., (2016) The cause of Late Cretaceous cooling: A multi-model/proxy comparison, Geology, doi:10.1130/G38363.1.
2015
  • Fiorella, R.P., Poulsen, C.J., Pillco Zola, R.S., Barnes, J., Tabor, C., and Ehlers, T.A. (2015). Spatiotemporal variability of modern precipitation d18O in the Central Andes and implications for paleoclimate and paloaltimetry estimates, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 120(10), 4630-4656, doi: 10.1002/2014JD022893.
  • Fiorella, R.P., Poulsen, C.J., Pillco Zola, R.S., Jeffery, M.L., Ehlers, T.A. (2015). Modern and long-term evaporation of central Andean surface waters suggests paleo archives underestimate Neogene elevations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 432, 59-72, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.045. [pdf]
  • Liu, Z., Jian, Z., Yoshimura, K., Buenning, N., Poulsen, C.J., Bowen, G., (2015). Recent contrasting winter temperature changes over North America linked to enhanced positive Pacific North American pattern, Geophysical Research Letters. 42(18), 7750-7757, doi:10.1002/2015GL065656.
  • Poulsen, C.J., Tabor, C.R., and White, J.D. (2015). Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations, Science, 348 (6240), 1238-1241, doi:10.1126/science.1260670. Link to full reprint. GENESIS simulations archived on NOAA paleoclimate website.
  • Tabor, C., Poulsen, C.J., and Pollard, D. (2015). How obliquity cycles powered earth Pleistocene global ice-volume variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 42(6), 1871-1879, doi:10.1002/2015GL063322.
  • Wilson, J.P., White, J.D., DiMichele, W.A., Hren, M.T., Poulsen, C.J., McElwain, J.C., and Montanez, I.P. (2015) Reconstructing extinct plant water use for understanding vegetation-climate feedbacks: Methods, synthesis, and a case study using the Paleozoic-era medullosan seed ferns, The Paleontological Society Papers, 21, 167-195.
2014
  • Feng, R., and Poulsen, C.J. (2014). Andean elevation control on tropical Pacific climate and ENSO, Paleoceanography, 29, 795-809, doi:10.1002/2014PA002640. [pdf]
  • Lowry, D.P., Poulsen, C.J., Horton, D.E., Torsvik, T.H., and Pollard, D. (2014). Thresholds for Paleozoic ice sheet initiation, Geology, [pdf].
  • Jeffery, M.L., Yanites, B.J., Poulsen, C.J., and Ehlers, T.A. (2014). Vegetation-precipitation controls on Central Andean topography, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Processes, 119, 1354-1375, doi:10.1002/2013JF002919. [pdf]
  • Tabor, C.R., Poulsen, C.J., Pollard, D. (2014). Mending Milankovith's theory: obliquity amplification by surface feedbacks, Climates of the Past, 10, 41-50, doi:10.5194/cp-10-41-2014. [pdf].
2013
  • Feng, R., Poulsen, C.J., Werner, M., Chamberlain, C.P., Mix, H.T., and Mulch, A. (2013). Evolution of Early Cenozoic topography, climate, and stable isotopes in precipitation in the North American Cordillera, American Journal of Science, 313, 613-648, doi:10.2475/07.2013.01. [pdf]
  • Fiorella, R.P. and Poulsen, C.J. (2013). Dehumidification over Tropical Continents Reduces Climate Sensitivity and Inhibits Snowball Earth Initiation. Journal of Climate, 26, 9677-9695, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00820.1.
  • Insel, N., Poulsen, C.J., Sturm, C., and Ehlers, T.A. (2013). Climate controls on interannual variability of Andean precipitation d18O, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 9721-9742, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50619.
  • Jeffery, M.L., Ehlers, T.A., Yanites, B.J., and Poulsen, C.J. (2013). Quantifying the role of paleoclimate and Andean Plateau uplift on river incision, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 118, 852-871, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20055.
  • Montañez, I.P. and Poulsen, C.J. (2013). The late Paleozoic ice age: An evolving paradigm, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 41, 13-33, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100118. [pdf]
  • Poulsen, C.J. and Zhou, J. (2013). Sensitivity of Arctic Climate Variability to Mean State: Insights from the Cretaceous. Journal of Climate, 26, 7003-7022, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00825.1. [pdf].
2012
  • Barnes, J.B., Ehlers, T.A., Insel, N., McQuarrie, N., and Poulsen, C.J. (2012). Linking orography, climate, and exhumation across the central Andes. Geology, 40, p 1138-1138. doi:10.1130/G33229.1.
  • Zhou, J., Poulsen, C.J., Rosenbloom, N., Shields, C., and Briegleb, B. (2012). Vegetation-climate interactions in the warm mid-Cretaceous. Climates of the Past, 8, p 565-576. doi:10.5194/cp-8-565-2012.
  • Herrington, A., Poulsen, C.J. (2012). Terminating the last interglacial: The role of ice sheet-climate feedbacks in a GCM asynchronously coupled to an ice sheet model, Journal of Climate, 25(6), 1871-1882, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00218.1.
  • Horton, D.E., Poulsen, C.J., Montañez, I.P., and DiMichele, W.A. (2012). Eccentricity-paced late Paleozoic climate change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 331-332, p 150-161. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.03.014.
  • Insel, N., Poulsen, C.J., Ehlers, T.A., and Sturm C. (2012). Response of meteoric d18O to surface uplift - Implications for Cenozoic Andean Plateau growth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-318, p 262-272. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.039. [pdf]
  • Jeffery, M.L., Poulsen, C.J., and Ehlers, T.A. (2012). Impacts of global cooling, surface uplift and an inland seaway on South American paleoclimate and precipitation d18O, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 124(3-4), p 335-351. doi:10.1130/B30480.1.
2011
  • Flögel, S., Wallmann, K., Poulsen, C.J., Zhou, J., Oschlies, A., Voigt, S., and Kuhnt, W. (2011). Simulating the biogeochemical effects of volcanic CO2 degassing on the oxygen-state of the deep ocean during the Cenomanian/Turnonian Anoxic Event (OAE2), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.018.
  • Poulsen, C.J. and Jeffery, M.L.., (2011). Climate change imprinting on stable isotopic compositions of high-elevation meteoric water cloaks past surface elevations of major orogens, Geology, 39, 595-598, doi:10.1130/G32052.1.
2010
  • Tabor, N.J., Smith, R.M., Steyer, S., Sidor, C.A., and Poulsen, C.J. (2010). The Permian Moradi Formation of northern Niger: Paleosol morphology, petrography and mineralogy, Palaeobiology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.11.002.
  • Insel N., Ehlers, T.A., Schaller, M., Barnes, J.B., Tawackoli, S. and Poulsen, C.J. (2010). Spatial and temporal variability in denudation across the Bolivian Andes from multiple geochronometers, Geomorphology, 122, 65-77, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.05.014.
  • Insel, N., Poulsen, C.J., and Ehlers, T.A., (2010). Influence of the Andes Mountains on South American moisture transport, convection, and precipitation, Climate Dynamics, v. 35, 1477-1492, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0637-1.
  • Horton, D.E., Poulsen, C.J., and Pollard D., (2010). Influence of high-latitude vegetation feedbacks on late Palaeozoic glacial cycles, Nature Geoscience, 3, 572-577, doi:10.1038/NGEO922.
  • Poulsen, C.J., Ehlers, T.A., and Insel, N., (2010). Onset of convective rainfall during gradual Late Miocene rise of the Central Andes, Science, 328, 490-493, doi:10.1126/science.1185078.
2009
  • Lee, S-.Y., and Poulsen, C.J., (2009). Obliquity and precessional forcing of continental snow fall and melt: Implications for orbital forcing of Pleistocene ice ages, Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 2663-2674. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.002.
  • Horton, D.E., and Poulsen, C.J., (2009). Paradox of late Paleozoic glacioeustasy, Geology, 37, 715-718, doi:10.1130/G30016A.1.
  • DiMichele, W., Montanez, I.P., Poulsen, C.J., and Tabor, N.J., (2009). Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth, Geobiology, 7, 200-226, doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00192.x.
  • Ehlers, T.A. and Poulsen, C.J., (2009). Large paleoclimate influence the interpretation of Andean Plateau paleoaltimetry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 281, 238-248, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.026.
  • You, Y., Huber, M., Muller, R.D., Poulsen, C.J., and Ribbe, J., (2009). Simulation of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L04702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036571.
2008
  • Lee, S-.Y. and Poulsen, C.J., (2008). Amplification of obliquity forcing through mean annual and seasonal atmospheric feedbacks, Climates of the Past, 4, 515-534, doi:10.1594.cp-4-205-2008.
  • Peyser, C.E. and Poulsen, C.J., (2008). Controls on Permo-Carboniferous precipitaiton over tropical Pangaea: A GCM sensitivity study, Palaeobiology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.106/j.palaeo.2008.03.048.
  • Soreghan, G.S., Soreghan, M.J., Poulsen, C.J., Young, R.A., Eble, C.F., Sweet, D.E., and Davogustto, O.C., (2008). Anomalous cold in the Pangaean tropics, Geology, 36 (8), 659-662, doi:10.1130/G24822A.1.
  • Tabor, N.J., and Poulsen, C.J., (2008). Paleoclimate across the Late Pennsylvanian-Early Permian tropical paleolatitudes: A review of climate indicators, their distribution, and relation to paleophysiographic climate factors, Palaeobiology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.03.052.
  • Tabor, N.J., Montanez, I.P., Scotese, C.R., Poulsen, C.J., and Mack, G.H., (2008). Paleosol archives of environmental and climate history in paleotropical western Euramerica during the latest Pennsylvanian through Early Permian, Geological Society of America Special Volume 441, 291-304. [pdf]
  • Zhou, J., Poulsen, C.J., Pollard, D., and White, T.S., (2008). Simulation of modern and middle Cretaceous marine d18O with an ocean-atmosphere GCM, Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2008PA001596.
2007
  • Horton, D.E., Poulsen, C.J., Pollard, D., 2007, Orbital and CO2 forcing of Late Paleozoic continental ice sheets, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L19708, doi:10.1029/2007GL031188. [pdf]
  • Poulsen, C.J., Pollard, D., Montanez, I., and Rowley, D., 2007, Late Paleozoic tropical climate response to Gondwanan deglaciation, Geology, 35, 771-774, doi:10.1130/G23841A.1.
  • Poulsen, C.J., Pollard, D., and White, T.S., 2007, General circulation model simulation of the d18O content of continental precipitation in the middle Cretaceous: A model-proxy comparison, Geology, 35, 191-202, doi:10.1130/G23343A.1.
2006
  • Lee, S.-Y. and Poulsen, C.J., 2006, Sea ice control of Plio-Pleistocene tropical Pacific climate evolution, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 248, 253-262, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.05.030.
  • Poulsen, C.J. and Huynh, T.T., 2006, Paleoceanography of the Late Paleozoic-Mesozoic Pacific: A perspective from climate model simulations, Paleogeography of Western North America, Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 46, 13-28.
2005
  • Lee, S.-Y. and Poulsen, C.J., 2005, Tropical Pacific climate response to obliquity forcing in the Pleistocene, Paleoceanography, 20, PA4010, doi:10.1029/2005PA001161.
  • Huynh, T.T. and Poulsen, C.J., 2005, Rising atmospheric CO2 as a possible trigger for the end-Triassic mass extinction, Palaeobiology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 217, 223-242, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.12.004.
  • Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.P., and Poulsen, C.J., 2005, Hydrological variability and the onset of El Nino-Southern Oscillation: A 19,250 calendar year record from Lake Elsinore, Southern California, Journal of Quaternary Science, 20, 239-254, doi:10.1002.jqs.906.
2004
  • Burger, H.R., Peck, W.H., Johnson, K.E., Tierney, K.A., Poulsen, C.J., Cady, P., Lowell, J., MacFarlane, W.A., Sincock, M.J., Archuleta, L.L., Pufall, A., and Cox, M.J., 2004, Geology and geochemistry of the Sphuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite, in Precambrian Geology of the Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana, J.B. Brady, H.R. Burger, J.T. Cheney, and T.A. Harms (Eds.), GSA Special Paper 377, 47-70.
  • Johnson, K.E., Brady, J.B., MacFarlane, W.A. Thomas, R.B., Poulsen, C.J., and Sincock, M.J., 2004, Precambrian meta-ultramafic rocks from the Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana, in Precambrian Geology of the Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana, J.B. Brady, H.R. Burger, J.T. Cheney, and T.A. Harms (Eds.), GSA Special Paper 377, 71-87.
  • Kirby, M.E., Poulsen, C.J., Lund, S.P., Patterson, W.P., Reidy, L., and Hammond, D.E., Late Holocene lake level dynamics inferred from magnetic susceptibility and stable oxygen isotope data: Lake Elsinore, Southern California (USA), Journal of Paleolimnology, 31, 275-293, 2004, doi:10.1023/B:JOPL.0000021710.39800.f6.
  • Poulsen, C.J., 2004, A balmy Arctic, Nature, 432, 814-815.
  • Poulsen, C.J., and Jacob, R., 2004, Factors that inhibit Snowball Earth simulation, Paleoceanography, 19, PA4021, doi:10.1029/2004PA001056. [pdf]
2003
2002
  • Poulsen, C.J., Jacob, R.L., Pierrehumbert, R.T., and Huynh, T.T., Testing paleogeographic controls on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth, Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 2002, doi:10.1029/2001GL014352.
  • Stott, L., Poulsen, C., Lund, S., and Thunell, R., 2002, Super ENSO and global climate oscillations at millennial time scales, Science, 297, 222-226, doi:10.1126/science.1071627.
2001
  • Poulsen, C.J., Barron, E.J., Arthur, M.A., and Peterson, W.H., 2001, Response of the mid-Cretaceous global oceanic circulation to tectonic and CO2 forcings, Paleoceanography, 16, 576-592, doi:10.1029/2000PA000579.
  • Poulsen, C. J., R.T. Pierrehumbert, and R.L. Jacob: Impact of ocean dynamics on the simulation of the Neoproterozoic “snowball Earth”, Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 1575-1578, 2001, doi:10.1029/2000GL012058.
  • White, T.S., Gonzalez, L., Ludvigson, G.A., and Poulsen, C.J., 2001, The mid-Cretaceous greenhouse hydrologic cycle, Geology, 9, p. 363-366. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0363:MCGHCO>2.0.CO;2.
2000
  • Dutton, J. F., C. J. Poulsen, and J. L. Evans, 2000, The effect of global climate change on the regions of tropical convection in CSM1, Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 3049-3052, doi:10.1029/2000GL011542.
1999
  • Poulsen, C.J., E.J. Barron, C.C. Johnson, and P.J. Fawcett, Links between the major climatic factors and regional oceanography in the mid-Cretaceous, 1999, in Evolution of the Cretaceous Ocean-Climate System, E. Barrera & C.C. Johnson (Eds.), GSA Special Paper 332, 73-90, doi:10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.73.
  • Poulsen, C.J., E.J. Barron, W.H. Peterson, and P.A. Wilson, 1999, A reinterpretation of mid-Cretaceous shallow marine temperatures through model-data comparison, Paleoceanography, 14, 679-697, 1999, doi:10.1029/1999PA900034.
  • PSUCLIM, Storm activity in ancient climates, 1, Sensitivity of severe storms to climate forcing factors on geologic time scales, 1999, J. Geophy. Res., 104, 27277-27294, doi:10.1029/1999JD900185.
  • PSUCLIM, Storm activity in ancient climates, 2, An analysis using climate simulations and sedimentary structures, 1999, J. Geophy. Res., 104, 27295-27320, doi:10.1029/1999JD900186.
1998
  • Poulsen, C. J., D. Seidov, E.J. Barron, and W.H. Peterson, 1998, The impact of paleogeographic evolution on the surface oceanic circulation and the marine environment within the mid-Cretaceous Tethys, Paleoceanography, 13, 546-559, doi:10.1029/98PA01789.
  • Poulsen, C. J., P.B. Flemings, P.B., R.A.J. Robinson, and J.M. Metzger, 1998, Three-dimensional stratigraphic evolution of the Miocene Baltimore Canyon region: implications for eustacy and the systems tract model, GSA Bulletin, 110, 1105-1122. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1105:TDSEOT>2.3.CO;2.