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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1611-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1611-2025
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11 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 11 Sep 2025

Evaluation of regional climate features over Antarctica in the PMIP past1000 experiment and implications for 21st-century sea level rise

Vincent Charnay, Daniel P. Lowry, Elizabeth D. Keller, and Abha Sood

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Our study evaluates models' ability to simulate Antarctic regional climate features by comparing available Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project models to sets of Last Millennium Antarctic proxy-based reconstructions most relevant to the surface mass balance. We later look at their implications for 21st-century sea level rise. The best-scoring model predicts a higher surface mass balance by 2100, which implies stronger mitigation of the ice sheet contribution to sea level rise. 
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