Knorr, Gregor; Butzin, Martin; Micheels, Arne; Lohmann, Gerrit (2019): Late Miocene model boundary condtions [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.904264, Supplement to: Knorr, G et al. (2011): A warm Miocene climate at low atmospheric CO2 levels. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(20), https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL048873
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Abstract:
Here we present Late Miocene (~11-7 Ma) model boundary conditions used by Knorr et al. [2011] in two files (Paleogeography.nc and Surface_conditions.nc). These boundary conditions relate to Figure 1 in the corresponding study.
The file Paleogeography.nc (0.5°x 0.5° resolution) contains the orography (positive values and zero) and bathymetry (negative values). The file Surface_conditions.nc contains land surface conditions. Besides the glacier mask these surface conditions (3.75°x 3.75° resolution) contain the vegetation distribution that is represented by specifying different land surface parameters including, surface albedo, surface roughness length, field capacity of soil, forest ratio, leaf area index, fractional vegetation cover, and soil data flags (Food and Agriculture Organization soil map) [cf. Hagemann et al., 1999]. For further details regarding the paleogeography reconstruction and proxy-based reconstruction of the Late Miocene vegetation we would like to refer to Micheels et al. [2007], Micheels et al. [2011] and the references therein.
Related to:
Hagemann, Stefan; Botzet, Michael; Dümenil, Lydia; Machenhauer, Bennert (1999): Derivation of global GCM boundary conditions from 1 km land use satelltie data. Report Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, 289
Micheels, Arne; Bruch, Angela A; Eronen, Jussi; Fortelius, Mikael; Harzhauser, Mathias; Utescher, Torsten; Mosbrugger, Volker (2011): Analysis of heat transport mechanisms from a Late Miocene model experiment with a fully-coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 304(3-4), 337-350, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.021
Micheels, Arne; Bruch, Angela A; Uhl, Dieter; Utescher, Torsten; Mosbrugger, Volker (2007): A Late Miocene climate model simulation with ECHAM4/ML and its quantitative validation with terrestrial proxy data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 253(1-2), 251-270, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.042
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Zip folder with two datasets: Paleogeography.nc and Surface_conditions.nc
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