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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1065-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1065-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
20 May 2021
Research article |
| 20 May 2021
The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations
Masa Kageyama
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/Institut
Pierre-Simon Laplace, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Sandy P. Harrison
School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science (SAGES),
University of Reading, Reading, UK
Marie-L. Kapsch
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Marcus Lofverstrom
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Juan M. Lora
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Uwe Mikolajewicz
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Sam Sherriff-Tadano
Atmospheric and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo,
Kashiwa, Japan
Tristan Vadsaria
Atmospheric and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo,
Kashiwa, Japan
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Atmospheric and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo,
Kashiwa, Japan
Nathaelle Bouttes
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/Institut
Pierre-Simon Laplace, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Deepak Chandan
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street,
Toronto, Ontario M5S1A7, Canada
Lauren J. Gregoire
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Ruza F. Ivanovic
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Kenji Izumi
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University
Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK
Allegra N. LeGrande
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA
Fanny Lhardy
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/Institut
Pierre-Simon Laplace, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Gerrit Lohmann
Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
Polina A. Morozova
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Rumi Ohgaito
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
André Paul
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Department of
Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
W. Richard Peltier
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street,
Toronto, Ontario M5S1A7, Canada
Christopher J. Poulsen
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Aurélien Quiquet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/Institut
Pierre-Simon Laplace, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Didier M. Roche
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/Institut
Pierre-Simon Laplace, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Cluster Earth and
Climate, de Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Xiaoxu Shi
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA
Jessica E. Tierney
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Paul J. Valdes
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University
Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK
Evgeny Volodin
Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia
Jiang Zhu
Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Data sets
Data plotted in this manuscript Masa Kageyama, Sandy P. Harrison, Marie-L. Kapsch, Marcus Lofverstrom, Juan M. Lora, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Sam Sherriff-Tadano, Tristan Vadsaria, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Nathaelle Bouttes, Deepak Chandan, Lauren J. Gregoire, Ruza F. Ivanovic, Kenji Izumi, Allegra N. LeGrande, Fanny Lhardy, Gerrit Lohmann, Polina A. Morozova, Rumi Ohgaito, André Paul, W. Richard Peltier, Christopher J. Poulsen, Aurélien Quiquet, Didier M. Roche, Xiaoxu Shi, Jessica E. Tierney, Paul J. Valdes, Evgeny Volodin, Jiang Zhu https://doi.org/10.14768/de241ea7-4c3d-4b56-8140-5de6940903be
Short summary
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ~21 000 years ago) is a major focus for evaluating how well climate models simulate climate changes as large as those expected in the future. Here, we compare the latest climate model (CMIP6-PMIP4) to the previous one (CMIP5-PMIP3) and to reconstructions. Large-scale climate features (e.g. land–sea contrast, polar amplification) are well captured by all models, while regional changes (e.g. winter extratropical cooling, precipitations) are still poorly represented.
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ~21 000 years ago) is a major focus for evaluating how well...
