PRISM3D Project
PlioMIP Modeling Groups | |||
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Group | Contact | PlioMIP Exp 1 | PlioMIP Exp 2 |
Hadley - UK | Alan Haywood, Dan Lunt, Paul Valdes | HadAM3 | HadCM3 |
University of New South Wales | Steven J. Phipps | CSIRO Mk3L Version 1.2 | CSIRO Mk3L Version 1.2 |
NCAR | Bette Otto-Bliesner, Nan Rosenbloom | CCSM4 | |
University of Massachusetts, Amhearst | Rob DeConto, Sebastian Koenig | Genesis V. 3.0 | |
Laboratoire de Physique Atmosphérique et Planétaire (LPAP) | Alexandra Henrot | Planet Simulator version Most 15 | |
GISS | Mark Chandler | GCMAM3, GISS Model E | GISS Model E-R |
Bjerknes/Bergen | Kerim H. Nisancioglu | NorESM | NorESM |
IAP/CAS | Zheng Weipeng, Zhang Zhongshi, Qing Yang | CAM3 | FGOALS-g2.0, FOAM1.5 |
Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut | Nanne Weber, Erik Tuenter | EC-Earth v.2 | EC-Earth v.2 |
Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo | Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Wing Le Chan, Ryota O'ishi | MIROC 3.2 GCM | MIROC 3.2 GCM |
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research | Christian Stepanek | COSMOS 1.2.0 | COSMOS 1.2.0 |
University of Kiel, Germany | Birgit Schneider | AOGCM KCM v1.2.2 | |
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environment (LSCE) | Camille Contoux,Anne Jost, Gilles Ramstein | LMDZ | IPSLCM5A |
University of Tsukuba | Youichi Kamae, Hiroaki Ueda | MRI-CGCM 2.3 | MRI-CGCM 2.3 |
Early in 2009 a scientific advisory panel was established to direct the PlioMIP project and to act as points of contact to provide any guidance necessary for groups interested in running PlioMIP experiments. The current composition of the PlioMIP advisory panel can be found below.
Lead (model) Alan Haywood (University of Leeds, UK)Lead (data) Harry Dowsett (US Geological Survey, USA)
Bette Otto-Bliesner (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
Mark Chandler (GISS/Columbia, New York, USA)
Aisling Dolan (Leeds University, UK)
Daniel Hill (Leeds University, UK)
Daniel Lunt (University of Bristol, UK)
Nan Rosenbloom (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
Ulrich Salzmann (Northumbria University, UK)
Technical and programming support (PlioMIP boundary conditions and web site) Kevin Foley (US Geological Survey, USA)
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PLISMIP-ANT
Leaders: Bas de Boer (1), Aisling Dolan (2)
- Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU) Utrecht University The Netherlands
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK
A short description of the analysisSimulating the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets in the mid-Pliocene warm period - An ice sheet model intercomparison project
Following on from the initial Pliocene Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (PLISMIP; Dolan et al., 2012), PLISMIP-ANT will focus solely on modelling the Antarctic ice sheets (East and West Antarctica) using new hybrid ice sheet models which incorporate both a shallow-ice approximation component suitable for simulating ice that is frozen to the bedrock and a shallow-shelf approximation, which allows the flow of ice shelves to be modelled. The project will undertake new ice sheet model simulations using outputs from the PlioMIP project and address for the first time the issue of ice sheet model dependency over the whole Antarctic continent using state-of-the-art ice sheet models.Please email Bas De Boer [b.deboer@uu.nl] or Aisling Dolan [a.m.dolan@leeds.ac.uk] if you are interested in taking part in this project.
Proposed start and completion dates
Start: October 2013
Finish: Summer 2014
A list of other interested participants
- Nick Golledge, Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Dave Pollard, Penn State University, USA
- Edward Gasson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Leaders: Aisling Dolan (1), Sebastian Koenig (2) and Daniel Hill (3)
A short description of the analysis
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK
- Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
- British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, UK
The aim of this project is to test and compare the performance of existing numerical ice sheet models (ISM) under prescribed climatic forcing derived from PlioMIP Experiments 1 and 2 results. Climatologies obtained from the Global Circulation Model (GCM) experiments will be used to force the ISMs over Greenland and Antarctica. This will quantify the uncertainties introduced in existing Pliocene ice sheet reconstructions, due to both the use of a single GCM and a single ISM. Not only will this project provide new benchmarks in the simulation of ice sheets in a past warm period, but the analysis of the impact of various model uncertainties could directly inform future predictions of ice sheet and sea-level.Proposed start and completion datesStart: May 2010 (in line with some of Exp 1 results being submitted to PlioMIP) [Submit email with short statement of interest to koenig@geo.umass.edu, or A.M.Dolan08@leeds.ac.uk by May 1, 2010.]
Finish: May 2011
A list of other interested participants
- Alan Haywood, University of Leeds, UK
- Rob DeConto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Dan Lunt, University of Bristol, UK
- Harry Dowsett, USGS, USA
- Ayako Abe-Ouchi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Dave Pollard, Penn State University, USA
- Bas de Boer, Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Petra Langebroeck, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
- André Paul, Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences and University of Bremen, Germany
- Michael Schulz, Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences and University of Bremen, Germany
- Aurélien Quiquet, Université Grenoble 1, France
Model intercomparison for simulated global distribution of biomes in the in the mid-Pliocene warm period
Leaders: Ulrich Salzmann (1), Alan M Haywood (2) and Daniel J Lunt (3)
A short description of the analysis
- School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, UK
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK
- Department of Geosciences, University of Bristol, UK
The aim of this project is to test and compare the performance of climate model simulations under prescribed climatic forcing derived from PlioMIP Experiments 1 and 2. Climatologies obtained from the Global Circulation Model (GCM) experiments will be used to do an ensemble run with BIOME4. The outcomes will then be compared with a global palaeobotanical proxy data set for the late Pliocene (Salzmann et al. 2008) using Kappa statistics. We will conduct global and regional scale analyses to better identify the underlying causes for differences among climate models.Proposed start and completion datesStart: July 2010 (in line with some of Exp 1 results being submitted to PlioMIP) [Submit email with short statement of interest to ulrich.salzmann@northumbria.ac.uk by July 1, 2010.]
Finish: July 2011
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- Leader
- A short description of the analysis (less than 100 words)
- Proposed start and completion dates
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