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Intercomparison using the PRISM2 data set

• 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.

• 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

• Poster:  Haywood, A.M., Bonham, S.G., Chandler, M.A., Valdes, P.J., Salzmann, U., Lunt, D.J., Otto-Bliesner, B., Rosenbloom, N., Dowsett, H.J. 2008. Simulating the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period: how similar are the models? Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP51B-1500.

PRISM3 DATA

• Bragg, F.J., Lunt, D., Haywood, A., 2012. Mid-Pliocene climate modelled using the UK Hadley Centre Model: PlioMIP Experiments 1 and 2. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 1109-1125.

• Contoux, C., Ramstein, G., Jost, A., 2012. Modelling the mid-Pliocene Warm Period climate with the IPSL coupled model and its atmospheric component LMDZ5A. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 903-917.

• Dolan, A., Koenig, S.J., Hill, D.J., Haywood, A., DeConto, R., 2012. Pliocene Ice Sheet Modelling Intercomparison Project (PLISMIP) - experimental design. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 963-974.

• Kamae, Y., Ueda, H., 2012. Mid-Pliocene global climate simulation with MRI-CGCM2.3: set-up and initial results of PlioMIP Experiments 1 and 2. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 793-808.

• Koenig, S.J., DeConto, R., Pollard, D., 2012. Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project: implementation strategy and mid-Pliocene Global climatology using GENESIS v3.0 GCM. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 73-85.

• Lunt, D.J., Haywood, A.M., Schmidt, G.A., Salzmann, U., Valdes, P.J., Dowsett, H.J., Loptson, C.A., 2012. On the causes of mid-Pliocene warmth and polar amplification. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 321-322, 128-138.

• Stepanek, C., Lohmann, G., 2012. Modelling mid-Pliocene climate with COSMOS. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 1221-1243.

• Yan, Q., Zhang, Z., Wang, H., Gao, Y., Zheng, W., 2012. Set-up and preliminary results of mid-Pliocene climate simulations with CAM3.1. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 289-297.

• Zhang, Z.S., Nisancioglu, K., Bentsen, M., Tjiputra, J., Bethke, I., Yan, Q., Risebrobakken, B., Andersson, C., Jansen, E., 2012. Pre-industrial and mid-Pliocene simulations with NorESM-L. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 523-533.

• Zhang, Z., Yan, Q., 2012. Pre-industrial and mid-Pliocene simulations with NorESM-L: AGCM simulations. Geoscientific Model Development 5, 1033-1043.

• Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP): experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 2) A. M. Haywood, H. J. Dowsett, M. M. Robinson, D. K. Stoll, A. M. Dolan, D. J. Lunt, B. Otto-Bliesner, and M. A. Chandler. Geosci. Model Dev., 4, 571-577, 2011

• Chan, W.-L., Abe-Ouchi, A., Ohgaito, R., 2011. Simulating the mid-Pliocene climate with the MIROC general circulation model: experimental design and initial results. Geoscientific Model Development 4, 1035-1049.

• Hill, D.J., Csank, A.Z., Dolan, A.M., Lunt, D.J., 2011. Pliocene climate variability: Northern Annular Mode in models and tree-ring data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 309, 118-127.

• Kamae, Y., H. Ueda, and A. Kitoh, 2011: Hadley and Walker circulations in the mid-Pliocene warm period simulated by an atmospheric general circulation model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 89, in press, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2011-505.

• Shukla, S.P., Chandler, M., Rind, D., Sohl, L.E., Jonas, J., Lerner, J., 2011. Teleconnections in a warmer climate: the Pliocene perspective. Climate Dynamics 37, 1869-1887.

• Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP): experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 1) A. M. Haywood, H. J. Dowsett, B. Otto-Bliesner, M. A. Chandler, A. M. Dolan, D. J. Hill, D. J. Lunt, M. M. Robinson, N. Rosenbloom, U. Salzmann, and L. E. Sohl. 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.

• Shukla, S.P., Chandler, M.A., Jonas, J., Sohl, L.E., Mankoff, K., Dowsett, H., 2009. Impact of a permanent El Nino (El Padre) and Indian Ocean Dipole in warm Pliocene climates. Paleoceanography 24.

• Poster:   Stoll, D., Caballero, R., Renaud, K., Robinson, M., Foley, K., Dowsett, H. 2009. Toward a New mid-Piacenzian Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction. NE GSA, 41(3), Annual Meeting, Abstract 41-4.

Data

Data generated by PlioMIP is archived in the PMIP2 database