Identification

Title

PlioMIP1 simulations with CESM1 (CAM4) and CESM1 (CAM5)

Alternative title(s)

d651042

Abstract

<p>The CESM mid-Pliocene project, completed by Bette Otto-Bliesner, Ran Feng, Esther Brady, and Nan Rosenbloom, is a set of published simulations to understand mid-Pliocene climate variability, similarities and dissimilarities with pre-Industrial, and model skills in simulating this period. One experiment contributes to the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project phase 1 (PlioMIP1). The rest are sensitivity experiments branched from the PlioMIP1 experiment. These sensitivity experiments quantify mid-Pliocene climate responses to closure of the Bering Strait, closure of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Straits, variations of CO2, variations of orbital forcings, absence of the western Antarctic Ice Sheet, and changes in tropospheric aerosol conditions.</p> <p>All simulations are performed with the atmosphere-ocean-land-sea ice coupled CESM1 at the nominal 1-degree latitude/longitude. Except for experiments designed to understand responses to aerosol changes (used CAM5.3), the rest of experiments use the CAM4 version of the atmospheric model. Descriptions of experiments featuring PlioMIP1 protocol, Strait Closure, CO2 and orbital forcing variations, or different tropospheric aerosol conditions can be separately found in Rosenbloom (2013), Otto-Bliesner et al., (2017), Feng et al., (2017), Feng et al., (2019).</p> <p>Diagnostics for these runs are available at http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/experiments/cesm1.1/PlioMIP/ .</p>

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d651042/

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description: Related Link

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https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d651042/dataaccess/

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name: Data Access

description: Related Link

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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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U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory

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revision

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2025-10-03

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EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE

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

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > VERTICAL WIND VELOCITY/SPEED

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN

EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SURFACE THERMAL PROPERTIES > HEAT FLUX > LATENT HEAT FLUX

originating controlled vocabulary

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U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory

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revision

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2025-10-03

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publication

effective date

2020-08-13

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notPlanned

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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None

Responsible organisations

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email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

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Metadata on metadata

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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

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Metadata date

2025-10-09T01:31:54Z

Metadata language

eng; USA