Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP2) simulations using the Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC4m)

Chan, Wing-Le; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1523-2020

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Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP2) simulations using the Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC4m)

Wing-Le Chan and Ayako Abe-Ouchi

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1523-2020-supplement

Data sets

Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 2 H. Dowsett https://geology.er.usgs.gov/egpsc/prism/7_pliomip2.html

Short summary

We carry out several modelling experiments to investigate the climate of the mid-Piacenzian warm period (~ 3.205 Ma) when CO₂ levels were similar to those of present day. The global surface air temperature is 3.1 °C higher compared to pre-industrial ones. Like previous experiments, the scale of warming suggested by proxy sea surface temperature (SST) data in the northern North Atlantic is not replicated. However, tropical Pacific SST shows good agreement with more recently published proxy data.