AMIP with Observed Radiative Forcing, Climatological Ozone
Description: AMIP conditions with observed radiative forcing with ozone set to climatological conditions (1980-1991).
Experiment ID: amip_clim_o3
Years: 1979-2012
Forcings
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) | Observed values from dataset described here: Hurrell, James W., James J. Hack, Dennis Shea, Julie M. Caron, James Rosinski, 2008: A New Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Boundary Dataset for the Community Atmosphere Model. J. Climate, 21, 5145–5153. doi: 0.1175/2008JCLI2292.1 |
Sea Ice (SIC) | Values from dataset described here: Hurrell, James W., James J. Hack, Dennis Shea, Julie M. Caron, James Rosinski, 2008: A New Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Boundary Dataset for the Community Atmosphere Model. J. Climate, 21, 5145–5153. doi: 0.1175/2008JCLI2292.1 |
Greenhouse Gases (GHG) | Values are from: Meinshausen, M., S. J. Smith, K. V. Calvin, J. S. Daniel, M. Kainuma, J.-F. Lamarque, K. Matsumoto, S. A. Montzka, S. C. B. Raper, K. Riahi, A. M. Thomson, G. J. M. Velders and D. van Vuuren (2011). The RCP Greenhouse Gas Concentrations and their Extension from 1765 to 2300. Climatic Change (Special Issue). doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0156-z which are the CMIP5 Recommendations for annual average, global mean concentrations. |
Ozone (03) | Climatology (1980-1991) described here: http://www.knmi.nl/research/climate_observations/publications/1998/f+k/ |
Aerosols |
ECHAM5 uses a built-in, time independent aerosol model which is based on atmosphere layers, and land and water surface types, described here: Tanre, D., Geleyn, J.-F. and Slingo, J. M. (1984): First results of the introduction of an advanced aerosol-radiation interaction in the ecmwf low resolution global model. In: Aerosols and Their Climatic Effects, edited by Gerber, H. and Deepak, A., pp. 133–177. A. Deepak, Hampton, Va. CAM4 uses time-varying aerosol content, and volcano aerosols from 1979-2005. After 2005, RCP6 aerosols (with no volcanoes) are used. |
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