Modeling a modern-like pCO2 warm period (Marine Isotope Stage KM5c) with two versions of an Institut Pierre Simon Laplace atmosphere–ocean coupled general circulation model

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Tan, Ning, Contoux, Camille, Ramstein, Gilles, Sun, Yong, Dumas, Christophe, Sepulchre, Pierre, Guo, Zhengtang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: envir; geo; Greenland; Laplace; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1-2020; https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/16/1/2020/

The mid-Piacenzian warm period (3.264 to 3.025 Ma) is the most recent geological period with present-like atmospheric pCO2 and is thus expected to have exhibited a warm climate similar to or warmer than the present day. On the basis of understanding that has been gathered on the climate variability...