Articles | Volume 10, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4005-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4005-2017
Model experiment description paper
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07 Nov 2017
Model experiment description paper |  | 07 Nov 2017

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

Johann H. Jungclaus, Edouard Bard, Mélanie Baroni, Pascale Braconnot, Jian Cao, Louise P. Chini, Tania Egorova, Michael Evans, J. Fidel González-Rouco, Hugues Goosse, George C. Hurtt, Fortunat Joos, Jed O. Kaplan, Myriam Khodri, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Natalie Krivova, Allegra N. LeGrande, Stephan J. Lorenz, Jürg Luterbacher, Wenmin Man, Amanda C. Maycock, Malte Meinshausen, Anders Moberg, Raimund Muscheler, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Bette I. Otto-Bliesner, Steven J. Phipps, Julia Pongratz, Eugene Rozanov, Gavin A. Schmidt, Hauke Schmidt, Werner Schmutz, Andrew Schurer, Alexander I. Shapiro, Michael Sigl, Jason E. Smerdon, Sami K. Solanki, Claudia Timmreck, Matthew Toohey, Ilya G. Usoskin, Sebastian Wagner, Chi-Ju Wu, Kok Leng Yeo, Davide Zanchettin, Qiong Zhang, and Eduardo Zorita

Data sets

WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) World Climate Research Programme http://www.wcrp-climate.org/index.php/wgcm-cmip/about-cmip

Solar forcing data sets PMIP4 past1000 https://pmip4.lsce.ipsl.fr/doku.php/exp_design:lm

Volcanic stratospheric sulphur injections and aerosol optical depth from 500 BCE to 1900 CE (https://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/Compact.jsp?acronym=eVolv2k_v2) M. Toohey and M. Sigl https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2017-31

Supplement of Easy Volcanic Aerosol (EVA v1.0): an idealized forcing generator for climate simulations M. Toohey, B. Stevens, H. Schmidt, and C. Timmreck https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4049-2016

PMIP4 PMOD_14C solar forcing data, Mendeley Data, v1 E. Rozanov https://doi.org/10.17632/99btkc93yr.1

SATIRE-M reconstruction of spectral solar irradiance over the Holocene C.-J. Wu https://doi.org/10.17617/3.11

Short summary
Climate model simulations covering the last millennium provide context for the evolution of the modern climate and for the expected changes during the coming centuries. They can help identify plausible mechanisms underlying palaeoclimatic reconstructions. Here, we describe the forcing boundary conditions and the experimental protocol for simulations covering the pre-industrial millennium. We describe the PMIP4 past1000 simulations as contributions to CMIP6 and additional sensitivity experiments.