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PMIP3 Boundary Conditions
Pre-industrial control run
Vegetation
OA = fixed
OAV = interactive
Ice sheets
Modern
Topography, coastlines
Modern
Greenhouse gases
Pre-industrial concentrations (around 1750)
CO2 = 280 ppm
CH4 = 760 ppb
N20 = 270 ppb
CFC = 0
03 = Modern - 10 DU
Insolation
Solar constant = 1365 W m-2
Eccentricity = 0.016724
Obliquity = 23.446 °
Angular precession = 102.04 °
Initial ocean state
Modern
Initialize 3-D ocean temperature and salinity from the Levitus 1998 datasets
Model spinup
Each group has its own spinup methodology, which we ask they document.
The model should be run long enough for any trends to be small, and the control run should be at least as long as any anomaly integrations.
Mid-holocene
Vegetation
OA = Same as control run
OAV = interactive
Ice sheets
Same as control run
Topography, coastlines
Same as control run
Greenhouse gases
CO2 = 280 ppm
CH4 = 650 ppb
N20 = 270 ppb
CFC = 0
03 = Same as control run
Insolation
Solar constant = 1365 W m-2 (Same as control run)
Eccentricity = 0.018682
Obliquity = 24.105 °
Angular precession = 0.87 °
Initial ocean state
Initialize 3-D ocean temperature and salinity either from the Levitus 1998 datasets or from year 100 of the control run
Model spinup
Same as control run
Last glacial maximum
Vegetation
OA = Same as control run
OAV = interactive
Ice sheets
ICE-5G v1.1
Topography, coastlines
From ICE-5G v1.1 data set
Greenhouse gases
CO2 = 185 ppm
CH4 = 350 ppb
N20 = 200 ppb
CFC = 0
03 = Same as control run
River outflow
Modified according to a river pathway map
Ice sheet melt
Same as control run, or add excess LGM freshwater
Insolation
Solar constant = 1365 W m-2 (Same as control run)
Eccentricity = 0.018994
Obliquity = 22.949 °
Angular precession = 114.42 °
Initial ocean state
Mean ocean salinity = Same as control run
- Option 1: same as for control run (warm ocean state)
but see model spinup below
- Option 2: cold ocean state from existing LGM simulation
Model spinup
If initializing from modern conditions (Option 1):
- Option 1a: we recommend doing a 100-year Haney forced run, restoring the SSTs to those of a slab model LGM anomaly SSTs.
- Option 1b: or 100-year Haney forced run, restoring to CLIMAP LGM anomaly SSTs.
- Option 1c: or ocean-only stage restoring SSTs to slab or CLIMAP LGM
- Option 1d: or just run it (brute force approach)!
For both Options 1 and 2:
Run the OAGCM (initialized from either the end of Option 1, or from the cold state of an existing LGM simulation) for long enough for any trends to be small.
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