1006: Simulations of the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (~3.3-3.0 Ma BP) using MPI-ESM 1.2.00 in the framework of the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2)

Principal investigator: Gerrit Lohmann

AWI-Bremerhaven (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 7/2016 to 6/2017
Report 7/2017 to 6/2018
Report 7/2018 to 6/2019
Report 7/2019 to 6/2020
Report 7/2021 to 6/2022
Report 7/2022 to 6/2023
Report 7/2023 to 6/2024
Report 7/2024 to 6/2025

Publications

• DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-61-2023, Weiffenbach, J. E., Baatsen, M. L. J., Dijkstra, H. A., von der Heydt, A. S., Abe-Ouchi, A., Brady, E. C., Chan, W.-L., Chandan, D., Chandler, M. A., Contoux, C., Feng, R., Guo, C., Han, Z., Haywood, A. M., Li, Q., Li, X., Lohmann, G., Lunt, D. J., Nisancioglu, K. H., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Peltier, W. R., Ramstein, G., Sohl, L. E., Stepanek, C., Tan, N., Tindall, J. C., Williams, C. J. R., Zhang, Q., and Zhang, Z.: Unraveling the mechanisms and implications of a stronger mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in PlioMIP2, Clim. Past, 19, 61–85, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-61-2023, 2023.
• DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-747-2023, Burton, L. E., Haywood, A. M., Tindall, J. C., Dolan, A. M., Hill, D. J., Abe-Ouchi, A., Chan, W.-L., Chandan, D., Feng, R., Hunter, S. J., Li, X., Peltier, W. R., Tan, N., Stepanek, C., and Zhang, Z.: On the climatic influence of CO2 forcing in the Pliocene, Clim. Past, 19, 747–764, doi:
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118020, Jian, Z., Dang, H., Yu, J., Wu, Q., Gong, X., Stepanek, C., Colin, C., Hu, L., Lohmann, G., Zhou, X., and Wan, S.: Changes in deep Pacific circulation and carbon storage during the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 605, 118020, doi:
• DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-00999-y, Pontes, G.M., Taschetto, A.S., Sen Gupta, A., Santoso, A., Wainer, I., Haywood, A.M., Chan, W.-L., Abe-Ouchi, A., Stepanek, C., Lohmann, G., et al.: Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift, Nature Geoscience, 15, 726–734, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00999-y, 2022.
• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-1281, Ren, X., Lunt, D. J., Hendy, E., von der Heydt, A., Abe-Ouchi, A., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Williams, C. J. R., Stepanek, C., Guo, C., Chandan, D., Lohmann, G., Tindall, J. C., Sohl, L. E., Chandler, M. A., Kageyama, M., Baatsen, M. L. J., Tan, N., Zhang, Q., Feng, R., Chan, W.-L., Peltier, W. R., Li, X., Kamae, Y., Zhang, Z., and Haywood, A. M.: The hydrological cycle and ocean circulation of the Maritime Continent in the mid-Pliocene: results from PlioMIP2, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1281, 2022.
• So far there are no publications. Besides providing the data to the PlioMIP2 and CMIP6 data bases, we will publish an overview of our results in the PlioMIP2 special issue of Climate of the Past