Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 <i>midHolocene</i> simulations

Brierley, Chris M.; Zhao, Anni; Harrison, Sandy P.; Braconnot, Pascale; Williams, Charles J. R.; Thornalley, David J. R.; Shi, Xiaoxu; Peterschmitt, Jean-Yves; Ohgaito, Rumi; Kaufman, Darrell S.; Kageyama, Masa; Hargreaves, Julia C.; Erb, Michael P.; Emile-Geay, Julien; D'Agostino, Roberta; Chandan, Deepak; Carré, Matthieu; Bartlein, Partrick J.; Zheng, Weipeng; Zhang, Zhongshi; Zhang, Qiong; Yang, Hu; Volodin, Evgeny M.; Tomas, Robert A.; Routson, Cody; Peltier, W. Richard; Otto-Bliesner, Bette; Morozova, Polina A.; McKay, Nicholas P.; Lohmann, Gerrit; Legrande, Allegra N.; Guo, Chuncheng; Cao, Jian; Brady, Esther; Annan, James D.; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1847-2020

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Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations

Chris M. Brierley, Anni Zhao, Sandy P. Harrison, Pascale Braconnot, Charles J. R. Williams, David J. R. Thornalley, Xiaoxu Shi, Jean-Yves Peterschmitt, Rumi Ohgaito, Darrell S. Kaufman, Masa Kageyama, Julia C. Hargreaves, Michael P. Erb, Julien Emile-Geay, Roberta D'Agostino, Deepak Chandan, Matthieu Carré, Partrick J. Bartlein, Weipeng Zheng, Zhongshi Zhang, Qiong Zhang, Hu Yang, Evgeny M. Volodin, Robert A. Tomas, Cody Routson, W. Richard Peltier, Bette Otto-Bliesner, Polina A. Morozova, Nicholas P. McKay, Gerrit Lohmann, Allegra N. Legrande, Chuncheng Guo, Jian Cao, Esther Brady, James D. Annan, and Ayako Abe-Ouchi

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1847-2020-supplement

Data sets

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Temperature 12k Database D. S. Kaufman, N. P. McKay, and C. Routson https://doi.org/10.25921/4ry2-g808

NOAA-CIRES Twentieth Century Reanalysis (V2c) G. Compo, J. Whitaker, and P. Sardeshmukh http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_ReanV2c.html

CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) P. Xie https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.cmap.html

GPCP Version 2.3 Combined Precipitation Data Set J.-J. Wang https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.gpcp.html

Global - Monthly temperature ensemble 1850 to 2016 M. Iylas https://oasishub.co/dataset/global-monthly-temperature-ensemble-1850-to-2016

Temperature T. Osborn, P. Jones, and M. Salmon https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/

Model code and software

PMIP4-midHolocene C. Brierley and A. Zhao https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4048333

Short summary

This paper provides an initial exploration and comparison to climate reconstructions of the new climate model simulations of the mid-Holocene (6000 years ago). These use state-of-the-art models developed for CMIP6 and apply the same experimental set-up. The models capture several key aspects of the climate, but some persistent issues remain.