Climate model output illustrating effects of carbon dioxide and ocean mixing on Miocene and Pliocene climate

• Main Authors: Lohmann, Gerrit, Knorr, Gregor, Hossain, Akil, Stepanek, Christian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: Binary Object; Binary Object (File Size); carbon dioxide; climate model; climate patterns; Miocene; ocean mixing; Pliocene; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.927137; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.927137

We present climate model output for various atmosphere and ocean quantities that illustrate the impact of three different types of forcing on global climate characteristics during mid-Pliocene (~3.3 - 3.0 Million years before present, Ma BP) and early to Mid-Miocene (~23-15 Ma BP): -geography, including setups for modern, mid-Pliocene, and early to Mid-Miocene -carbon dioxide, ranging from Pre-Industrial (280 parts per million by volume, ppmv) to 840 ppmv -strength of ocean mixing via enhancement of respective mixing parameters, ranging from the unperturbed state to mild (five times), intermediate (ten times), and strong (twenty-fife times) enhancement of vertical mixing. The data provided with this data publication has been employed by the authors in the manuscript "Effects of CO2 and ocean mixing on Miocene and Pliocene temperature gradients" (revised for publication in the journal Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, special issue "The Miocene: The Future of the Past") for a comparative study of the effects of carbon dioxide and ocean mixing on various climate characteristics. Here we provide all climate output that has been employed towards creating analyses presented in that publication. Data is provided at the resolution employed for generating analyses for the manuscript. Atmosphere model output provided at native model resolution (T31, ~3.75°x3.75° horizontally). Ocean output provided at a regular grid (the native grid of the ocean model is curvilinear with a formal resolution of 3.0°x1.8° horizontally). Sea ice cover provided at a resolution of 1.0°x1.0°. Zonal mean of ocean potential temperature over all model levels provided at a latitudinal resolution of 1°, vertically discretized on native ocean model levels (40 pressure levels of non-linear spacing). Depth of the ocean mixed layer, sea surface temperature, and total heat flux across the atmosphere ocean interface given at resolutions of 0.5°x0.5° resolution. Data at higher resolutions is provided towards retaining more details of the coastlines ...