Identification

Title

Long Simulations of the Miocene Climatic Optimum

Alternative title(s)

d010026

Abstract

<p>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.</p>

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d010026/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

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https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d010026/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

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codeSpace

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Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

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dataset

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title

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revision

effective date

2021-03-30

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CESM > NCAR Community Earth System Model

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title

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revision

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2025-10-03

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EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > SPECIFIC HUMIDITY

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FRACTION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS

EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > CRYOSPHERIC INDICATORS > SALINITY

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROCESSES > EVAPORATION

EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > PALEOCLIMATE INDICATORS > LAND RECORDS > ISOTOPES

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title

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revision

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2025-10-03

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publication

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2025-06-30

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notPlanned

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

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email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

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pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-10-09T01:32:20Z

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