The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations

Jungclaus, Johann H.; Bard, Edouard; Baroni, Mélanie; Braconnot, Pascale; Cao, Jian; Chini, Louise P.; Egorova, Tania; Evans, Michael; González-Rouco, J. Fidel; Goosse, Hugues; Hurtt, George C.; Joos, Fortunat; Kaplan, Jed O.; Khodri, Myriam; Klein Goldewijk, Kees; Krivova, Natalie; LeGrande, Allegra N.; Lorenz, Stephan J.; Luterbacher, Jürg; Man, Wenmin; ... (2017). The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations. Geoscientific model development (GMD), 10(11), pp. 4005-4033. Copernicus Publications 10.5194/gmd-10-4005-2017

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The pre-industrial millennium is among the periods selected by the Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP) for experiments contributing to the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) and the fourth phase of the PMIP (PMIP4). The past1000 transient simulations serve to investigate the re-
sponse to (mainly) natural forcing under background conditions not too different from today, and to discriminate between forced and internally generated variability on interannual to centennial timescales. This paper describes the motivation and the experimental set-ups for the PMIP4-CMIP6 past1000 simulations, and discusses the forcing agents orbital, solar, volcanic, and land use/land cover changes, and variations in greenhouse gas concentrations. The past1000 simulations covering the pre-industrial millennium from 850 Common Era (CE) to 1849 CE have to be complemented
by historical simulations (1850 to 2014 CE) following the CMIP6 protocol. The external forcings for the past1000 experiments have been adapted to provide a seamless transition across these time periods. Protocols for the past1000 simulations have been divided into three tiers. A default forcing data set has been defined for the Tier 1 (the CMIP6 past1000) experiment. However, the PMIP community has maintained the flexibility to conduct coordinated sensitivity experiments to explore uncertainty in forcing reconstructions as well as parameter uncertainty in dedicated Tier 2 simulations. Additional experiments (Tier 3) are defined to foster collaborative model experiments focusing on the early instrumental period and to extend the temporal range and the scope of the simula-
tions. This paper outlines current and future research foci and common analyses for collaborative work between the PMIP and the observational communities (reconstructions, instrumental data).

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Climate and Environmental Physics
10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute

UniBE Contributor:

Joos, Fortunat, Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics
500 Science > 550 Earth sciences & geology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1991-959X

Publisher:

Copernicus Publications

Language:

English

Submitter:

Doris Rätz

Date Deposited:

22 Nov 2017 11:11

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:08

Publisher DOI:

10.5194/gmd-10-4005-2017

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.106909

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/106909

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