Long Simulations of the Miocene Climatic Optimum

The global warmth of the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO, ~15 Ma) offers valuable insights into warm climate dynamics and future climate change, providing a real-world testbed for validating climate models. However, it remains unclear how warm the MCO was given the scarcity and uncertainties of surface temperature proxy records. Three iCESM1.3 long simulations are constructed to estimate the Miocene global mean surface temperature (GMST). The three simulations included: preindustrial (PI), 1.5x CO2, 3x CO2. Each simulation case includes long time series files with a monthly temporal resolution and a NE16 G16 spatial resolution (~2 degree atmosphere and ~1 degree ocean), covering the last 100 model years of the global climate fields.

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Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Author Zhu, Feng
Zhu, J.
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2025-06-30
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/3QFN-GN70
Alternate Identifier d010026
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Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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Metadata Date 2025-07-14T22:05:02Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d010026
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Zhu, Feng, Zhu, J.. (2025). Long Simulations of the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/3QFN-GN70. Accessed 28 July 2025.

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