Alan M. Haywood

Advisory Group: Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Mark Chandler, Aisling Dolan, Harry Dowsett, Daniel Lunt, Bette

Otto-Bliesner, Ulrich Salzmann.

The Pliocene Model Intercomparsion Project (PlioMIP) - Phase 1

and where next...??

Workshop 1: Goddard Institute for Space Studies 2008

Workshop 2: US Geological Survey 2011

It began in 2007/2008

To produce our best representation of a warm world in the Pliocene and assess model dependency

What did we do?• Formal MIP and not an ensemble of opportunity

• 2 Pliocene experiments (1 × AGCM, 1 × AOGCM)

• Set up with the best boundary conditions available from the PRISM Project (Pliocene Research Interpretations and Synoptic Mapping):

- SST/sea-ice (AGCM)- Topography (as an anomaly)- Vegetation (new within PMIP)- CO2 at 405 ppmv- Deep ocean temperatures*

Who did it?Group Participants PlioMIP Exp 1 PlioMIP Exp 2

Hadley - UK Fran Bragg, Dan Lunt, Alan Haywood HadAM3 HadCM3

NCAR Bette Otto-Bliesner, Nan Rosenbloom CCSM4

University of Massachusetts, Amhearst

Rob DeConto, Sebastian Koenig Genesis V. 3.0

GISS Mark Chandler, Linda Sohl GCMAM3, GISS Model E GISS Model E-R

Bjerknes/Bergen Zhang Zhongshi, Kerim H. Nisancioglu NorESM NorESM

IAP/CAS Zheng Weipeng, Zhang Zhongshi, Qing Yang CAM3 FGOALS-g2.0, FOAM1.5

Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo

Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Wing Le Chan, Ryota O'ishi MIROC 3.2 GCM MIROC 3.2 GCM

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Christian Stepanek, Gerrit Lohmann COSMOS 1.2.0 COSMOS 1.2.0

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environment

(LSCE)

Camille Contoux,Anne Jost, Gilles Ramstein LMDZ IPSLCM5A

University of Tsukuba Youichi Kamae, Hiroaki Ueda MRI-CGCM 2.3 MRI-CGCM 2.3

What did we achieve?• Hold our heads up high here… over 20 published papers and still counting

What did we achieve?

Where next?