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  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology
  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Numerical modeling and data assimilation
  • Global Change: Climate dynamics

Abstract

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 26, NO. 7, PP. 859-862, 1999
doi:10.1029/1999GL900126

Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

S. Joussaume

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France

K. E. Taylor

PCMDI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

P. Braconnot

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France

J. F. B. Mitchell

Hadley Centre, Bracknell, UK

J. E. Kutzbach

Center for Climatic Research, Univ. Wisconsin, USA

S. P. Harrison

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

I. C. Prentice

School of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden

A. J. Broccoli

NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University, USA

A. Abe‐Ouchi

Center for Climate System Research, University, Tokyo, Japan

P. J. Bartlein

Dpt. of Geography, University Oregon, USA

C. Bonfils

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France

B. Dong

Dpt. of Meteorology, University reading, UK

J. Guiot

IMEP CNRS, Faculté de St‐Jérôme, Marseille, France

K. Herterich

University Bremen, Germany

C. D. Hewitt

Hadley Centre, Bracknell, UK

D. Jolly

School of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden

J. W. Kim

Yonseï University, Seoul, Korea

A. Kislov

Dpt. Meteorology and Climatology, University Moscow, Russia

A. Kitoh

Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

M. F. Loutre

Institut d'Astronomie et de Géophysique, UCL, Belgique

V. Masson

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France

B. McAvaney

Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia

N. McFarlane

Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria

N. de Noblet

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France

W. R. Peltier

Dpt. Atmospheric Science, University of Toronto, Canada

J. Y. Peterschmitt

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France

D. Pollard

Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University, USA

D. Rind

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA

J. F. Royer

Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Toulouse, France

M. E. Schlesinger

Dpt. Atmospheric Sciences, University Illinois, USA

J. Syktus

CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, and Queensland Centre for Climate Applications, Australia

S. Thompson

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA

P. Valdes

Dpt. of Meteorology, University reading, UK

G. Vettoretti

Dpt. Atmospheric Science, University of Toronto, Canada

R. S. Webb

NOAA/Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, USA

U. Wyputta

University Bremen, Germany

Amplification of the northern hemisphere seasonal cycle of insolation during the mid‐Holocene causes a northward shift of the main regions of monsoon precipitation over Africa and India in all 18 simulations conducted for the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). Differences among simulations are related to differences in model formulation. Despite qualitative agreement with paleoecological estimates of biome shifts, the magnitude of the monsoon increases over northern Africa are underestimated by all the models.

Received 3 December 1998; accepted 16 February 1999; .

Citation: Joussaume, S., et al. (1999), Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP), Geophys. Res. Lett., 26(7), 859–862, doi:10.1029/1999GL900126.

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