Regional and global climate for the mid-Pliocene using the University of Toronto version of CCSM4 and PlioMIP2 boundary conditions

Chandan, Deepak; Peltier, W. Richard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-919-2017

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Regional and global climate for the mid-Pliocene using the University of Toronto version of CCSM4 and PlioMIP2 boundary conditions

Deepak Chandan and W. Richard Peltier

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-919-2017-supplement

Data sets

PlioMIP2/PRISM4 boundary condition data USGS PlioMIP2 http://geology.er.usgs.gov/egpsc/prism/7.2_pliomip2_data.html

Short summary

This paper discusses the climate of the mid-Pliocene warm period (~ 3.3–3 Mya) obtained using coupled climate simulations at CMIP5 resolution with the CCSM4 model and the boundary conditions (BCs) prescribed for the PlioMIP2 program. It is found that climate simulations performed with these BCs capture the warming patterns inferred from proxy data much better than what was possible with the BCs for the original PlioMIP program.