Geoscientific Model Development (Feb 2017)
The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0)
- D. J. Lunt,
- M. Huber,
- E. Anagnostou,
- M. L. J. Baatsen,
- R. Caballero,
- R. DeConto,
- H. A. Dijkstra,
- Y. Donnadieu,
- D. Evans,
- R. Feng,
- G. L. Foster,
- E. Gasson,
- A. S. von der Heydt,
- C. J. Hollis,
- G. N. Inglis,
- S. M. Jones,
- J. Kiehl,
- S. Kirtland Turner,
- R. L. Korty,
- R. Kozdon,
- S. Krishnan,
- J.-B. Ladant,
- P. Langebroek,
- C. H. Lear,
- A. N. LeGrande,
- K. Littler,
- P. Markwick,
- B. Otto-Bliesner,
- P. Pearson,
- C. J. Poulsen,
- U. Salzmann,
- C. Shields,
- K. Snell,
- M. Stärz,
- J. Super,
- C. Tabor,
- J. E. Tierney,
- G. J. L. Tourte,
- A. Tripati,
- G. R. Upchurch,
- B. S. Wade,
- S. L. Wing,
- A. M. E. Winguth,
- N. M. Wright,
- J. C. Zachos,
- R. E. Zeebe
Affiliations
- D. J. Lunt
- School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- M. Huber
- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
- E. Anagnostou
- Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- M. L. J. Baatsen
- Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- R. Caballero
- Department of Meteorology (MISU), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- R. DeConto
- Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
- H. A. Dijkstra
- Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Y. Donnadieu
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CNRS/CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- D. Evans
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
- R. Feng
- National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
- G. L. Foster
- Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- E. Gasson
- Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
- A. S. von der Heydt
- Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- C. J. Hollis
- GNS Science, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
- G. N. Inglis
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- S. M. Jones
- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- J. Kiehl
- PBSci-Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- S. Kirtland Turner
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA
- R. L. Korty
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
- R. Kozdon
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, USA
- S. Krishnan
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, USA
- J.-B. Ladant
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CNRS/CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- P. Langebroek
- Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
- C. H. Lear
- School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- A. N. LeGrande
- NASA-GISS, New York, USA
- K. Littler
- Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- P. Markwick
- Getech Group plc, Leeds, UK
- B. Otto-Bliesner
- National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
- P. Pearson
- School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- C. J. Poulsen
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- U. Salzmann
- Department of Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- C. Shields
- National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
- K. Snell
- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
- M. Stärz
- Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
- J. Super
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, USA
- C. Tabor
- National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
- J. E. Tierney
- Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
- G. J. L. Tourte
- School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- A. Tripati
- Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- G. R. Upchurch
- Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA
- B. S. Wade
- Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, UK
- S. L. Wing
- Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
- A. M. E. Winguth
- Earth and Environmental Science, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
- N. M. Wright
- School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- J. C. Zachos
- PBSci-Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- R. E. Zeebe
- Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-889-2017
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 2
pp. 889 – 901
Abstract
Past warm periods provide an opportunity to evaluate climate models under extreme forcing scenarios, in particular high ( > 800 ppmv) atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Although a post hoc intercomparison of Eocene ( ∼ 50 Ma) climate model simulations and geological data has been carried out previously, models of past high-CO2 periods have never been evaluated in a consistent framework. Here, we present an experimental design for climate model simulations of three warm periods within the early Eocene and the latest Paleocene (the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM). Together with the CMIP6 pre-industrial control and abrupt 4 × CO2 simulations, and additional sensitivity studies, these form the first phase of DeepMIP – the Deep-time Model Intercomparison Project, itself a group within the wider Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). The experimental design specifies and provides guidance on boundary conditions associated with palaeogeography, greenhouse gases, astronomical configuration, solar constant, land surface processes, and aerosols. Initial conditions, simulation length, and output variables are also specified. Finally, we explain how the geological data sets, which will be used to evaluate the simulations, will be developed.
