Jessica E Tierney

Interests

Research

Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography, Organic Geochemistry, Climate Dynamics

Teaching

Ocean Sciences, History of Earth's Climate, Organic Geochemistry

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Inglis, G. N., & Tierney, J. E. (2020). The TEX$_86$ Paleotemperature Proxy. In Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science. Cambridge University Press.
• Tierney, J. E. (2014). Biomarker-based inferences of past climate: the TEX86 paleotemperature proxy. In Treatise on Geochemistry, second edition(pp 379-393).
• Tierney, J. E. (2012). GDGT Thermometry: Lipid tools for reconstructing paleotemperatures. In The Paleontological Society Papers.

Journals/Publications

• Peaple, M. D., Bhattacharya, T., Tierney, J. E., Knott, J. R., Lowenstein, T. K., & Feakins, S. J. (2024). Biomarker Evidence for an MIS M2 Glacial-Pluvial in the Mojave Desert Before Warming and Drying in the Late Pliocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39(1), e2023PA004687.
• Fox, M. L., Tierney, J., Lu, H., Wang, S., Xia, W., Zhang, H., & Wu, J. (2023). Leaf wax isotopes reveal distinct hominin paleoenvironments in the Eastern Qinling Mountains of central China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 299, 107845.
• Inglis, G. N., Mart\'\inez-Sosa, P., Tierney, J. E., Witkowski, C. R., Lyons, S., Baczynski, A. A., & Freeman, K. H. (2023). Impact of organic carbon reworking upon GDGT temperature proxies during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Organic Geochemistry, 183, 104644.
• Kielhofer, J. R., Tierney, J. E., Reuther, J. D., Potter, B. A., Holmes, C. E., Lano\"e, F. B., Esdale, J. A., Wooller, M. J., & Bigelow, N. H. (2023). BrGDGT temperature reconstruction from interior Alaska: Assessing 14,000 years of deglacial to Holocene temperature variability and potential effects on early human settlement. Quaternary Science Reviews, 303, 107979.
• King, J., Tierney, J., Osman, M., Judd, E. J., & Anchukaitis, K. J. (2023). DASH: a MATLAB toolbox for paleoclimate data assimilation. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(19), 5653--5683.
• Mart\'\inez-Sosa, P., Tierney, J. E., P\'erez-Angel, L. C., Stefanescu, I. C., Guo, J., Kirkels, F., Sep\'ulveda, J., Peterse, F., Shuman, B. N., & Reyes, A. V. (2023). Development and application of the Branched and Isoprenoid GDGT Machine learning Classification algorithm (BIGMaC) for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(7), e2023PA004611.
• Olson, K. J., Guillerm, E., Peaple, M. D., Lowenstein, T. K., Gardien, V., Caupin, F., Feakins, S. J., Tierney, J. E., Stroup, J., Lund, S., & others, . (2023). Application of Brillouin thermometry to latest Pleistocene and Holocene halite from Searles Lake, California, USA. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602, 117913.
• So, R. T., Lowenstein, T. K., Jagniecki, E., Tierney, J. E., & Feakins, S. J. (2023). Holocene water balance variations in Great Salt Lake, Utah: application of GDGT indices and the ACE salinity proxy. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(6), e2022PA004558.
• Walters, A. P., Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., Meyers, S. R., Graves, K., & Carroll, A. R. (2023). Climate system asymmetries drive eccentricity pacing of hydroclimate during the early Eocene greenhouse. Science Advances, 9(31), eadg8022.
• Windler, G., Tierney, J. E., & Demenocal, P. B. (2023). Hydroclimate variability in the equatorial western Indian Ocean for the last 250,000 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(2), e2022PA004530.
• Banerjee, A., Yeung, L. Y., Murray, L. T., Tie, X., Tierney, J. E., & Legrande, A. N. (2022). Clumped-isotope constraint on upper-tropospheric cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum. AGU Advances, 3(4), e2022AV000688.
• Brennan, P. R., Bhattacharya, T., Feng, R., Tierney, J. E., & Jorgensen, E. M. (2022). Patterns and mechanisms of northeast Pacific temperature response to Pliocene boundary conditions. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(7), e2021PA004370.
• Degroot, D., Anchukaitis, K. J., Tierney, J. E., Riede, F., Manica, A., Moesswilde, E., & Gauthier, N. (2022). The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past. Environmental Research Letters, 17(10), 103001.
• Inglis, G. N., Bhattacharya, T., Hemingway, J. D., Hollingsworth, E. H., Feakins, S. J., & Tierney, J. E. (2022). Biomarker approaches for reconstructing terrestrial environmental change. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 50, 369--394.
• Judd, E. J., Tierney, J. E., Huber, B. T., Wing, S. L., Lunt, D. J., Ford, H. L., Inglis, G. N., McClymont, E. L., O???Brien, C. L., Rattanasriampaipong, R., & others, . (2022). The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data. Scientific data, 9(1), 753.
• Meegan, K. D., Tierney, J. E., Bhattacharya, T., Zhu, J., & Murray, J. W. (2022). Glacial Warming in the Eastern Pacific Warm Pool. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(10), e2022GL098830.
• Peaple, M. D., Beverly, E. J., Garza, B., Baker, S., Levin, N. E., Tierney, J. E., H\"aggi, C., & Feakins, S. J. (2022). Identifying the drivers of GDGT distributions in alkaline soil profiles within the Serengeti ecosystem. Organic Geochemistry, 169, 104433.
• Peaple, M. D., Bhattacharya, T., Lowenstein, T. K., McGee, D., Olson, K. J., Stroup, J. S., Tierney, J. E., & Feakins, S. J. (2022). Biomarker and pollen evidence for late Pleistocene pluvials in the Mojave Desert. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(10), e2022PA004471.
• Ramos, R. D., LeGrande, A. N., Griffiths, M. L., Elsaesser, G. S., Litchmore, D. T., Tierney, J. E., Pausata, F., & Nusbaumer, J. (2022). Constraining clouds and convective parameterizations in a climate model using paleoclimate data. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(8), e2021MS002893.
• Thompson, A. J., Zhu, J., Poulsen, C. J., Tierney, J. E., & Skinner, C. B. (2022). Northern Hemisphere vegetation change drives a Holocene thermal maximum. Science advances, 8(15), eabj6535.
• Tibbett, E. J., Warny, S., Tierney, J. E., Wellner, J. S., & Feakins, S. J. (2022). Cenozoic Antarctic Peninsula Temperatures and Glacial Erosion Signals From a Multi-Proxy Biomarker Study. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(9), e2022PA004430.
• Tierney, J. E., Torfstein, A., & Bhattacharya, T. (2022). Late Quaternary hydroclimate of the Levant: The leaf wax record from the Dead Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 289, 107613.
• Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., Li, M., Ridgwell, A., Hakim, G. J., Poulsen, C. J., Whiteford, R. D., Rae, J. W., & Kump, L. R. (2022). Spatial patterns of climate change across the Paleocene--Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), e2205326119.
• Cai, W., Clapp, C., Das, I., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Thomas, A., & Tierney, J. E. (2021). Reflections on weather and climate research. Nature Reviews Earth \& Environment, 2(1), 9--14.
• Kageyama, M., Harrison, S. P., Kapsch, M., 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., Izumi, K., LeGrande, A. N., Lhardy, F., Lohmann, G., Morozova, P. A., Ohgaito, R., , Paul, A., et al. (2021). The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations. Climate of the Past, 17(3), 1065--1089.
• King, J. M., Anchukaitis, K. J., Tierney, J. E., Hakim, G. J., Emile-Geay, J., Zhu, F., & Wilson, R. (2021). A data assimilation approach to last millennium temperature field reconstruction using a limited high-sensitivity proxy network. Journal of Climate, 34(17), 7091--7111.
• Lunt, D. J., Bragg, F., Chan, W., Hutchinson, D. K., Ladant, J., Morozova, P., Niezgodzki, I., Steinig, S., Zhang, Z., Zhu, J., Abe-Ouchi, A. .., Anagnostou, E., Boer, A. M., Coxall, H. K., Donnadieu, Y., Foster, G., Inglis, G. N., Knorr, G., Langebroek, P. M., , Lear, C. H., et al. (2021). DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data. Climate of the Past, 17(1), 203--227.
• Mart\'\inez-Sosa, P., Tierney, J. E., Stefanescu, I. C., Crampton-Flood, E. D., Shuman, B. N., & Routson, C. (2021). A global Bayesian temperature calibration for lacustrine brGDGTs. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 305, 87--105.
• Meegan, K. D., Tierney, J. E., Bhattacharya, T., Zhu, J., McCarty, L., & Murray, J. W. (2021). Climatic Drivers of Deglacial SST Variability in the Eastern Pacific. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(10), e2021PA004264.
• More, K. D., Wuchter, C., Irigoien, X., Tierney, J. E., Giosan, L., Grice, K., & Coolen, M. J. (2021). Subseafloor Archaea reflect 139 kyrs of paleodepositional changes in the northern Red Sea. Geobiology, 19(2), 162--172.
• Osman, M. B., Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., Tardif, R., Hakim, G. J., King, J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2021). Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, 599(7884), 239--244.
• Peaple, M. D., Tierney, J. E., McGee, D., Lowenstein, T. K., Bhattacharya, T., & Feakins, S. J. (2021). Identifying plant wax inputs in lake sediments using machine learning. Organic Geochemistry, 156, 104222.
• Stefanescu, I. C., Shuman, B. N., & Tierney, J. E. (2021). Temperature and water depth effects on brGDGT distributions in sub-alpine lakes of mid-latitude North America. Organic Geochemistry, 152, 104174.
• Tibbett, E. J., Scher, H. D., Warny, S., Tierney, J. E., Passchier, S., & Feakins, S. J. (2021). Late Eocene record of hydrology and temperature from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(4), e2020PA004204.
• Windler, G., Tierney, J. E., & Anchukaitis, K. J. (2021). Glacial-Interglacial Shifts Dominate Tropical Indo-Pacific Hydroclimate During the Late Pleistocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(15), e2021GL093339.
• Zhu, J., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Brady, E. C., 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, 48(3), e2020GL091220.
• Crampton-Flood, E. D., Tierney, J. E., Peterse, F., Kirkels, F. M., & Damst\'e, J. (2020). BayMBT: A Bayesian calibration model for branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils and peats. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 268, 142--159.
• DiNezio, P. N., Puy, M., Thirumalai, K., Jin, F., & Tierney, J. E. (2020). Emergence of an equatorial mode of climate variability in the Indian Ocean. Science Advances, 6(19), eaay7684.
• Feakins, S. J., Liddy, H. M., Tauxe, L., Galy, V., Feng, X., Tierney, J. E., Miao, Y., & Warny, S. (2020). Miocene C4 grassland expansion as recorded by the Indus Fan. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(6), e2020PA003856.
• Goldstein, S. L., Kiro, Y., Torfstein, A., Kitagawa, H., Tierney, J., & Stein, M. (2020). Revised chronology of the ICDP Dead Sea deep drill core relates drier-wetter-drier climate cycles to insolation over the past 220 kyr. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244, 106460.
• Inglis, G. N., Bragg, F., Burls, N. J., Cramwinckel, M. J., Evans, D., Foster, G. L., Huber, M., Lunt, D. J., Siler, N., Steinig, S., Wilkinson, R., Anagnostou, E., Cramwinckel, M., Hollis, C. J., Pancost, R. D., & Tierney, J. E. (2020). Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene--Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene. Climate of the Past, 16(5), 1953--1968.
• Kaufman, D., McKay, N., Routson, C., Erb, M., Davis, B., Heiri, O., Jaccard, S., Tierney, J., D\"atwyler, C., Axford, Y., & others, . (2020). A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records. Scientific data, 7(1), 1--34.
• Martinez-Sosa, P., Tierney, J. E., & Meredith, L. K. (2020). Controlled lacustrine microcosms show a brGDGT response to environmental perturbations. Organic Geochemistry, 145, 104041.
• McClymont, E. L., Ford, H. L., Ho, S. L., Tindall, J. C., Haywood, A. M., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bailey, I., Berke, M. A., Littler, K., Patterson, M. O., Petrick, B., Peterse, F., Ravelo, A., Risebrobakken, B., De Schepper, G., Swann, A., Thirumalai, K., Tierney, J. E., & others, . (2020). Lessons from a high-CO$_2$ world: an ocean view from $\sim$3 million years ago. Climate of the Past, 16(4), 1599--1615.
• Mu\~noz, S. E., Porter, T. J., Bakkelund, A., Nusbaumer, J., Dee, S. G., Hamilton, B., Giosan, L., & Tierney, J. E. (2020). Lipid biomarker record documents hydroclimatic variability of the Mississippi River basin during the Common Era. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(12), e2020GL087237.
• Stokke, E. W., Jones, M. T., Tierney, J. E., Svensen, H. H., & Whiteside, J. H. (2020). Temperature changes across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum--a new high-resolution TEX86 temperature record from the Eastern North Sea Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 544, 116388.
• Tierney, J. E., Poulsen, C. J., Monta\~nez, I. P., Bhattacharya, T., Feng, R., Ford, H. L., H\"onisch, B., Inglis, G. N., Petersen, S. V., Sagoo, N., & others, . (2020). Past climates inform our future. Science, 370(6517).
• Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., King, J., Malevich, S. B., Hakim, G. J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2020). Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited. Nature, 584(7822), 569--573.
• Windler, G., Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2020). Unraveling Glacial Hydroclimate in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool: Perspectives From Water Isotopes. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(12), e2020PA003985.
• Feakins, S. J., Wu, M. S., Ponton, C., & Tierney, J. E. (2019). Biomarkers reveal abrupt switches in hydroclimate during the last glacial in southern California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 515, 164--172.
• Hollis, C. J., Dunkley Jones, T., Anagnostou, E., Bijl, P. K., Cramwinckel, M. J., Cui, Y., Dickens, G. R., Edgar, K. M., Eley, Y., Evans, D., Foster, G. L., Frieling, J., Inglis, G. N., Kennedy, E. M., Kozdon, R., Lauretano, V., Lear, C. H., Littler, K., Lourens, L., , Meckler, A. N., et al. (2019). The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(7), 3149--3206.
• Malevich, S. B., Vetter, L., & Tierney, J. E. (2019). Global Core Top Calibration of $\delta^18$O in Planktic Foraminifera to Sea Surface Temperature. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(8), 1292--1315.
• Mart\'\inez-Sosa, P., & Tierney, J. E. (2019). Lacustrine brGDGT response to microcosm and mesocosm incubations. Organic Geochemistry, 127, 12--22.
• Thirumalai, K., DiNezio, P. N., Tierney, J. E., Puy, M., & Mohtadi, M. (2019). An El Ni\~no Mode in the Glacial Indian Ocean?. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(8), 1316--1327.
• Tierney, J. E., Haywood, A. M., Feng, R., Bhattacharya, T., & Otto-Bliesner, B. L. (2019). Pliocene warmth consistent with greenhouse gas forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(15), 9136--9144.
• Tierney, J. E., Malevich, S. B., Gray, W., Vetter, L., & Thirumalai, K. (2019). Bayesian calibration of the Mg/Ca paleothermometer in planktic foraminifera. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(12), 2005--2030.
• Windler, G., Tierney, J. E., DiNezio, P. N., Gibson, K., & Thunell, R. (2019). Shelf exposure influence on Indo-Pacific Warm Pool climate for the last 450,000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 516, 66--76.
• Zhu, J., Poulsen, C. J., & Tierney, J. E. (2019). Simulation of Eocene extreme warmth and high climate sensitivity through cloud feedbacks. Science advances, 5(9), eaax1874.
• Bhattacharya, T., Tierney, J. E., Addison, J. A., & Murray, J. W. (2018). Ice sheet modulation of deglacial North American monsoon intensification. Nature Geoscience, 11, 848--852.
• DiNezio, P. N., Tierney, J. E., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Timmermann, A., Bhattacharya, T., Rosenbloom, N., & Brady, E. (2018). Glacial changes in tropical climate amplified by the Indian Ocean. Science Advances, 4(12), eaat9658.
• Tierney, J. E., & Tingley, M. P. (2018). BAYSPLINE: A New Calibration for the Alkenone Paleothermometer. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(3), 281-301. doi:10.1002/2017PA003201
• Bhattacharya, T., Tierney, J. E., & DiNezio, P. (2017). Glacial reduction of the North American Monsoon via surface cooling and atmospheric ventilation. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(10), 5113--5122. doi:10.1002/2017GL073632
• Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N. P., Kaufman, D. S., Von, G. L., Wang, J., Anchukaitis, K. J., Abram, N. J., Addison, J. A., Curran, M. A., Evans, M. N., Henley, B. J., Hao, Z., Martrat, B., McGregor, H. V., Neukom, R., Pederson, G. T., Stenni, B., Thirumalai, K., Werner, J. P., , Xu, C., et al. (2017). A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. Scientific data, 4, 170088.
• Lee, H., Feakins, S. J., Lu, Z., Schimmelmann, A., Sessions, A. L., Tierney, J. E., & Williams, T. J. (2017). Comparison of three methods for the methylation of aliphatic and aromatic compounds. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31, 1633--1640.
• Lunt, D. J., Huber, M., Anagnostou, E., Baatsen, M. L., Caballero, R., DeConto, R., Dijkstra, H. A., Donnadieu, Y., Evans, D., Feng, R., & others, . (2017). The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0). Geoscientific Model Development, 10(2), 889--901.
• Smerdon, J. E., Luterbacher, J., Phipps, S. J., Anchukaitis, K. J., Ault, T., Coats, S., Cobb, K. M., Cook, B. I., Colose, C., Felis, T., Gallant, A., Jungclaus, J. H., Konecky, B., LeGrande, A., Lewis, S., Lopatka, A. S., Man, W., Mankin, J. S., Maxwell, J. T., , Otto-Bliesner, B. L., et al. (2017). Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era. Climate of the Past, 13(12), 1851--1900.
• Tierney, J. E., Damst\'e, J., Pancost, R. D., Sluijs, A., & Zachos, J. C. (2017). Eocene temperature gradients. Nature Geoscience, 10(8), 538.
• Tierney, J. E., Pausata, F. S., & deMenocal, P. B. (2017). Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara. Science Advances, 1. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1601503
• Tierney, J. E., deMenocal, P. B., & Zander, P. D. (2017). A climatic context for the out-of-Africa migration. Geology, 45(11), 1023--1026.
• Ummenhofer, C. C., Kuluke, M., & Tierney, J. E. (2017). Extremes in East African hydroclimate and links to Indo-Pacific variability on interannual to decadal timescales. Climate Dynamics. doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3786-7
• Abram, N. J., McGregor, H. V., Tierney, J. E., Evans, M. N., McKay, N. P., & Kaufman, D. S. (2016). Early onset of industrial–era warming across the oceans and continents. Nature, 536, 411-418. doi:10.1038/nature19082
• DiNezio, P. N., Timmermann, A., Tierney, J. E., Jim, F., Otto-Bliesner, B., Rosenbloom, N., Mapes, B., Neale, R., Ivanovic, R. F., & Montenegro, A. (2016). The climate response of the Indo-Pacific warm pool to glacial sea level. Paleoceanography, 31, 866-894. doi:10.1002/2015PA002890
• Fleming, L. E., & Tierney, J. E. (2016). An automated method for the determination of the TEX86 and U-37(K ') paleotemperature indices. ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY, 92, 84-91.
• Liddy, H. M., Feakins, S. J., & Tierney, J. E. (2016). Cooling and drying in northeast Africa across the Pliocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 430-438. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.005
• Richey, J. N., & Tierney, J. E. (2016). GDGT and alkenone flux in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for the TEX86 and UK′37 paleothermometers. Paleoceanography, 31, 1547-1561. doi:10.1002/2016PA003032
• Rose, C., Polissar, P. J., Tierney, J. E., Filley, T., & deMenocal, P. B. (2016). Changes in northeast African hydrology and vegetation associated with Pliocene-Pleistocene sapropel cycles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0243
• Tierney, J. E., Pausata, F. S., & deMenocal, P. (2016). Deglacial Indian monsoon failure and North Atlantic stadials linked by Indian Ocean surface cooling. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 9(1), 46-+.
• Toomey, M. R., Donnelly, J. P., & Tierney, J. E. (2016). South Pacific hydrologic and cyclone variability during the last 3,000 years. Paleoceanography, 31, 491-501. doi:10.1002/2015PA002870
• Tierney, J. E., & Tingley, M. P. (2015). A TEX86 surface sediment database and extended Bayesian calibration. Scientific Data, 2. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.29
• Tierney, J. E., Abram, N. J., Anchukaitis, K. J., Evans, M. N., Giry, C., Kilbourne, K. H., Saenger, C. P., Wu, H. C., & Zinke, J. (2015). Tropical sea surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives. PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, 30(3), 226-252.
• Tierney, J. E., Ummenhofer, C. C., & deMenocal, P. B. (2015). Past and future rainfall in the Horn of Africa. Science Advances, 1. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500682
• Dubois, N., Oppo, D. W., Galy, V. V., Mohtadi, M., van der Kaars, S., Tierney, J. E., Rosenthal, Y., Eglinton, T. I., Lueckge, A., & Linsley, B. K. (2014). Indonesian vegetation response to changes in rainfall seasonality over the past 25,000 years. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 7(7), 513-517.
• Tierney, J. E., & Tingley, M. P. (2014). A Bayesian, spatially-varying calibration model for the TEX86 proxy. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 127, 83-106.
• Anchukaitis, K. J., & Tierney, J. E. (2013). Identifying coherent spatiotemporal modes in time-uncertain proxy paleoclimate records. CLIMATE DYNAMICS, 41(5-6), 1291-1306.
• DiNezio, P. N., & Tierney, J. E. (2013). The effect of sea level on glacial Indo-Pacific climate. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 6(6), 1-7.
• Tierney, J. E., & deMenocal, P. B. (2013). Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum. SCIENCE, 342(6160), 843-846.
• Tierney, J. E., Smerdon, J. E., Anchukaitis, K. J., & Seager, R. (2013). Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean. NATURE, 493(7432), 389-392.
• Tierney, J. E. (2012). Green Sahara: African Humid Periods paced by Earth’s orbital changes. Nature Education Knowledge, 3(10).
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• Tierney, J. E., Oppo, D. W., LeGrande, A. N., Huang, Y., Rosenthal, Y., & Linsley, B. K. (2012). The influence of Indian Ocean circulation on Warm Pool hydroclimate during the Holocene epoch. Journal of Geophysical Research -- Atmospheres, 117. doi:10.1029/2012JD018060
• Tierney, J. E., Schouten, S., Pitcher, A., Hopmans, E. C., & Damste, J. S. (2012). Core and intact polar glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in Sand Pond, Warwick, Rhode Island (USA): Insights into the origin of lacustrine GDGTs. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 77, 561-581.
• Tierney, J. E., Lewis, S. C., Cook, B. I., LeGrande, A. N., & Schmidt, G. A. (2011). Model, proxy and isotopic perspectives on the East African Humid Period. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 307(1-2), 103-112.
• Tierney, J. E., Russell, J. M., Damste, J. S., Huang, Y., & Verschuren, D. (2011). Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 30(7-8), 798-807.
• Tierney, J. E. (2010). Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(17), 4902-4918. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.06.002
• Tierney, J. E., Mayes, M. T., Meyer, N., Johnson, C., Swarzenski, P. W., Cohen, A. S., & Russell, J. M. (2010). Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 3(6), 422-425.
• Tierney, J. E., Oppo, D. W., Rosenthal, Y., Russell, J. M., & Linsley, B. K. (2010). Coordinated hydrological regimes in the Indo-Pacific region during the past two millennia. PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, 25.
• Tierney, J. E., Russell, J. M., & Huang, Y. (2010). A molecular perspective on Late Quaternary climate and vegetation change in the Lake Tanganyika basin, East Africa. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 29(5-6), 787-800.
• Tierney, J. E., & Russell, J. M. (2009). Distributions of branched GDGTs in a tropical lake system: Implications for lacustrine application of the MBT/CBT paleoproxy. ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY, 40(9), 1032-1036.
• Agnihotri, R., Altabet, M. A., Herbert, T. D., & Tierney, J. E. (2008). Subdecadally resolved paleoceanography of the Peru margin during the last two millennia. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS, 9.
• Tierney, J. E., Russell, J. M., Huang, Y., Damste, J. S., Hopmans, E. C., & Cohen, A. S. (2008). Northern hemisphere controls on tropical southeast African climate during the past 60,000 years. SCIENCE, 322(5899), 252-255.
• Tierney, J. E., & Russell, J. M. (2007). Abrupt climate change in southeast tropical Africa influenced by Indian monsoon variability and ITCZ migration. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 34(15).

Proceedings Publications

• Douville, H. K., Raghavan, K., Renwick, J., Allan, R. P., Arias, P. A., Barlow, M., Cerezo-Mota, R., Cherchi, A., Gan, T. Y., Gergis, J., Jiang, D., Khan, A., Pokam Mba, W., Rosenfeld, D., Tierney, J., & Zolina, O. (2021). Water Cycle Changes. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.