Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-25T02:46:54Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 28 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LGM_TROPICAL -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2011-04-08T04:00:00Z

The LGM Tropical Terrestrial Data Synthesis (Farrera et al., 1999) contains quantitative reconstructions of mean temperature of the coldest month (MTCO) and mean annual ground temperature ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]6K_N_ATLANTIC_SST -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2011-04-07T04:00:00Z

The 6k data are based on two types of data: 1) alkenones, a geochemical proxy, and 2) transfer function estimates of sea-surface temperature based on faunal assemblages of planktic foraminifers. All ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GLSDB -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-05-08T04:00:00Z

The Global Lake Status Data Base (GLSDB: Kohfeld and Harrison, 2000, Harrison et al., 2003) is a long-standing international effort to compile the geomorphic and biostratigraphic data ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP2_TROPICALCLIM -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-01-21T05:00:00Z

The LGM Tropical Terrestrial Data Synthesis was used as a diagnostic by Pinot et al. (1999) and in the IPCC (2001). An updated version of this diagram was presented by Harrison (2000). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEO_LAKELEVEL 45.0,33.0,65.0,50.0 2006-09-29T04:00:00Z

The lake level dataset contains data on the reconstructed extent of the Aral and Caspian Seas during the last glacial maximum 18,000 YBP. The reconstructions were made by Olga Dennisenko (Department ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BIOME6000 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2006-09-26T04:00:00Z

The Palaeovegetation Mapping Project (generally known as BIOME 6000: Prentice and Webb, 1998) was inaugurated in 1994 with the aim of providing global maps describing the vegetation patterns at 6000?500 ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]MIDHOLO_PRECIP_NAFRICA -20.0,15.0,45.0,35.0 2006-09-26T04:00:00Z

Pollen evidence indicates that grassland and xerophytic woodland/scrubland occurred in ares of northern Africa characterised by desert today during the mid-Holocene (Jolly et al., 1998a, 1998b). Mid-Holocene ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BIOME6000_MEGABIOME -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2006-09-26T04:00:00Z

Most dynamic vegetation models (DGVMs) simulate far fewer PFTs, and hence discriminate far fewer biomes, than the palaeodata allow. In order to facilitate direct comparison with model output, we have ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2006-05-11T04:00:00Z

The Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) was initiated in order to coordinate and encourage the systematic study of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) and to assess their ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_GFDL -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-07-28T04:00:00Z

One of several versions of global spectral models in use at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, ithis version of the GFDL model is applied primarily to climate studies. In its treatment of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_BMRC -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The BMRC model is a descendant of a spectral general circulation model first developed in the 1970s (cf. Bourke et al. 1977 , and McAvaney et al. 1978 ). This version is more recent than that used ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_CCC2 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The CCC model is the second-generation version of a model first developed in the early 1980s for climate applications. The model is identical to the latest AMIP model exept for different initial ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_CCSR1 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

Model CCSR/NIES AGCM (T21 L20) 1995 is based on a simple global atmospheric model first developed at the University of Tokyo (cf. Numaguti 1993), and further refined as a collaboration between CCSR ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_CLIMBER2 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

CLIMBER-2, is a model developed by the CLIMate and BiosphERe groupe-Climate System Department at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). For the PMIP, CLIMBER-2 consists of runs ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_CNRM2 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The model is a version (Cycle 14) of the ARPEGE climate model, which is designed for use by the French climate community. (ARPEGE is the acronym for Action de Recherche Petite Echelle Grande Echelle: ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_CSIRO -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The CSIRO model is derived from earlier two-level and four-level spectral models based on the primitive equations expressed in conservative flux form (cf. Gordon 1981, 1993 ). For the PMIP, CSIRO ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_ECHAM3 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

This is the third in a series of models developed at MPI that derive from an earlier version (cycle 17) of the operational forecast model of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_GEN1 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The global climate model used for PMIP is Version 1.02A of GENESIS (Global ENvironmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems). It has been developed at NCAR Interdisciplinary Climate ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_GEN2 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The global climate model used for PMIP is Version 2.0 of GENESIS (Global ENvironmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems). It has been developed at NCAR Interdisciplinary Climate Systems ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_LMCELMD4 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

LMCELMD4: The LMD model derives from an earlier version developed for climate studies (cf. Sadourny and Laval 1984) . Subsequent modifications principally include changes in the representation of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_MRI2 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The MRI model is derived from an earlier version of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) model (cf. Arakawa and Mintz 1974 and Arakawa and Lamb 1977 ). Subsequent modifications include ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_MSU -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The MSU model was developed in 1989 for climate applications. The latest version of this model is significantly differ from the first version: a) it is used the simulation with seasonal resolution, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_GISS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The GISS model used for the PMIP experiment is a modified version of Model II that is described by Hansen et al. (1983) . The current model (described by Hansen et al., 1997) differs from this predecessor ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_UGAMP -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The UGAMP model is based on the ECMWF (cycle 27) model (cf. Tiedtke et al. 1988 and Simmons et al. 1989 ), but with modifications principally in the treatment of radiation, convection, surface fluxes, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_UIUC11 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The 11-layer tropospheric/lower-stratospheric GCM is a descendent of the 2-layer atmospheric GCM developed in the late 1960's and early 1970's by Arakawa and Mintz at UCLA , and subsequently developed ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_UKMO -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The UKMO HADAM2 model part of the line of Unified Models (UM) intended to provide a common framework for forecasting and climate applications (cf. Cullen 1993 ). The dynamical formulations are those ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_YONU -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-20T04:00:00Z

The model extends the vertical domain and resolution of the AMIP baseline model YONU Tr5.1 (4x5 L5) 1994 by the inclusion of 2 more vertical levels. The method of obtaining surface values of air temperature ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PMIP_CCM13 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2005-06-14T04:00:00Z

CCM3: The Atmospheric model is the fourth generation NCAR Community Climate Model (version 3: CCM3). The CCM3 is an evolution of the CCM2 as described by Hack and al (1993,1994) and CCM2 is the historical ...