Articles | Volume 9, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3859-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3859-2016
Methods for assessment of models
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01 Nov 2016
Methods for assessment of models |  | 01 Nov 2016

Transient simulations of the present and the last interglacial climate using the Community Climate System Model version 3: effects of orbital acceleration

Vidya Varma, Matthias Prange, and Michael Schulz

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Transient simulations for present and last interglacials using a comprehensive coupled climate model CCSM3 (Community Climate System Model~3.0), links to model result files in NetCDF format V. Varma, M., Prange, and M. Schulz https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.867327

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We compare the results from simulations of the present and the last interglacial, with and without acceleration of the orbital forcing, using a comprehensive coupled climate model. In low latitudes, the simulation of long-term variations in interglacial surface climate is not significantly affected by the use of the acceleration technique and hence model–data comparison of surface variables is therefore not hampered but major repercussions of the orbital forcing are obvious below thermocline.