A new multivariable benchmark for Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations

Cleator, Sean F.; Harrison, Sandy P.; Nichols, Nancy K.; Prentice, I. Colin; Roulstone, Ian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-699-2020

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06 Apr 2020

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| 06 Apr 2020

A new multivariable benchmark for Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations

Sean F. Cleator, Sandy P. Harrison, Nancy K. Nichols, I. Colin Prentice, and Ian Roulstone

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review of cp-2019-55', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Jul 2019
- SC1: 'Response to reviewer 1 comments', Sandy Harrison, 03 Jul 2019
- AC4: 'Response to review 1', Sandy Harrison, 19 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Distinguish covariance from uncertainty', Michel Crucifix, 08 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Michel Crucifix's review', Sandy Harrison, 19 Sep 2019
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 28 Aug 2019
- AC3: 'Response to review 3', Sandy Harrison, 19 Sep 2019
EC1: 'From the Editor', Masa Kageyama, 30 Aug 2019
- AC1: 'Response to editor's comment', Sandy Harrison, 13 Sep 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (02 Oct 2019) by Masa Kageyama

AR by Sandy Harrison on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 Nov 2019) by Masa Kageyama

AR by Sandy Harrison on behalf of the Authors (20 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Post-review adjustments

AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval

AA by Sean Cleator on behalf of the Authors (23 Mar 2020) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (01 Apr 2020) by Masa Kageyama

Short summary

We present geographically explicit reconstructions of seasonal temperature and annual moisture variables at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), 21 000 years ago. The reconstructions use existing site-based estimates of climate, interpolated in space and time in a physically consistent way using climate model simulations. The reconstructions give a much better picture of the LGM climate and will provide a robust evaluation of how well state-of-the-art climate models simulate large climate changes.