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Pliocene Experimental Design

Boundary conditions

The boundary conditions for PlioMIP have been finalised and are available on the Pliocene Research, Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping website.

This table shows a list of the modelling groups participating in the PlioMIP project.

Haywood, A. M., Dowsett, H. J., Otto-Bliesner, B., Chandler, M. A., Dolan, A. M., Hill, D. J., Lunt, D. J., Robinson, M. M., Rosenbloom, N., Salzmann, U., and Sohl, L. E.: Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP): experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 1), Geosci. Model Dev., 3, 227-242, 2010.
Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson, Alan M. Haywood, Ulrich Salzmann, Daniel Hill, Linda Sohl, Mark Chandler, Mark Williams, Kevin Foley, Danielle K. Stoll, 2010.: The PRISM3D paleoenvironmental reconstruction, Stratigraphy, vol. 7, No. 2-3: 123-139.
Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson, Danielle K. Stoll, Kevin M. Foley, 2010.: Mid-Piacenzian mean annual sea surface temperature: an analysis for data-model comparisons., Stratigraphy, vol. 7, No. 2-3: 189-198.
Haywood, A.M., Chandler, M.A., Valdes, P.J., Salzmann, U., Lunt, D.J., Dowsett, H.J. (2009).:Comparison of mid-Pliocene climate predictions produced by the HadAM3 and GCMAM3 General Circulation Models., Global and Planetary Change, 66, 208-224.
Haywood, A.M., Chandler, M.A., Valdes, P.J., Lunt, D.L., Salzmann, U., Otto-Bliesner, B., Rosenbloom, N. and Dowsett, H.J., 2009.: Simulating the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period: how similar are the models? Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-2226.

If you have any questions or points for discussion regarding PlioMIP, please email the leaders Alan Haywood or Harry Dowsett.