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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19 Jul 2017

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| 19 Jul 2017

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

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RC1: 'Review for Chandan and Peltier', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Apr 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee 1', Deepak Chandan, 24 Apr 2017
RC2: 'Review for Regional and global climate for the mid-Pliocene using CCSM4 and PlioMIP2 boundary conditions', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Apr 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee 2', Deepak Chandan, 24 Apr 2017

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (26 May 2017) by Alan Haywood

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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.