Data release for Applying the Community Ice Sheet Model to evaluate PMIP3 LGM climatologies over the North American ice sheets
Dates
Publication Date
2017-08-18
Revision
2019-02-19
Time Period
2017
Citation
Alder, J.R., and Hostetler, S.W., 2019, Data release for Applying the Community Ice Sheet Model to evaluate PMIP3 LGM climatologies over the North American ice sheets (ver. 2.0, February 2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7ZK5FK2.
Summary
The data release consists of a single NetCDF file with results from a suite of ice sheet model simulations. We ran with Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM2) with input from models used in the Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison 3 (PMIP3). The NetCDF file contains output from model year 50,000 for a limited number of variables to keep the file size reasonably small. This subset of variables are the ones we focus our analysis and paper on.
Summary
The data release consists of a single NetCDF file with results from a suite of ice sheet model simulations. We ran with Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM2) with input from models used in the Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison 3 (PMIP3). The NetCDF file contains output from model year 50,000 for a limited number of variables to keep the file size reasonably small. This subset of variables are the ones we focus our analysis and paper on.
Alder, J.R., and Hostetler, S.W., 2019, Applying the Community Ice Sheet Model to evaluate PMIP3 LGM climatologies over the North American ice sheets: Climate Dynamics, v. 3, no. 46, p. 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04663-x.
The dataset is a sensitivity suite of positive degree factors used in an ice sheet model when forced with PMIP3 LGM simulations. The ice sheet model is applied to determine if LGM simulations have a temperature and precipitation climatology that would support a positive mass balance.
