PMIP - Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project

PMIP organizes coordinated model experiments for key past periods, and is currently in its fourth phase.

PMIP is endorsed by PAGES and WCRP and has been endorsed as a CMIP6 project for five key experiments. Find out more about these on the PMIP4 website here.

PMIP Wings

22 December 2022: PMIP has launched PMIP WINGS (PMIP Web-based INteractive Global Seminars), an online seminar series which the group hopes everyone will want to be part of. The idea is to hold seminars approximately once a month on the last Thursday of the month. 
The format can develop but the plan is to start with two 20 minutes presentations plus discussion, finished within an hour, on Zoom. 
The actual time of the meeting will vary so that everyone will have the chance to attend some of the seminars live. The events will be recorded and made available to all on YouTube or some other open platform.

PMIP would like to build the program for the year ahead (2023) and are hoping that everyone in PMIP will want to present something at some point. 
Please email pmip show mail address to volunteer to present something.

You can present anything PMIPish. It can be science results, plans, work in progress, proposals for things that PMIP could do, or really any other things that may be of interest to the members of PMIP.

In order to fully enable the global nature, PMIP would like one more organiser in the Americas, who can host a big Zoom meeting and handle the recording and upload. Presently we have IPSL (France), UCL (UK), Uni Heidelberg (German) and AORI (Japan) (ie Masa K, Chris B, Kira R and Masa Y) who are able to host. Please email show mail address if you might be able to fill this role.

We hope to host the recordings of the PMIP WINGS seminars on the IPSL YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@csipsl and will try to make them available within a week of the seminar. Please head over to the channel if you missed seeing a seminar live. The discussions are not included in the recording. There is also a PMIP WINGS page on the PMIP wiki: https://pmip4.lsce.ipsl.fr/doku.php/wings:index

The Zoom link will be posted to the list (PMIP-announce) mailing list. > Join the mailing list
The PMIP WINGS team as of December 2022: Masa Yoshimori, Kira Rehfeld, Masa Kageyama, Julia Hargreaves, Chris Brierley

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Image taken from Kageyama M et al. The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 1: Overview andover-arching analysis plan. Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 1033–1057, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1033-2018

History

PMIP began in the early 1990s. The specific aim of PMIP was, and continues to be, to provide a mechanism for coordinating paleoclimate modelling and model-evaluation activities to understand the mechanisms of climate change and the role of climate feedbacks.

Aims

The key aims of the project are to:

- Understand the mechanisms of climate change
- Identify the different climatic factors that shape our environment
- Evaluate the capability of state-of-the-art models to reproduce different climates

PAGES working groups connected to PMIP

> QUIGS
> SISAL
> PALSEA
> 2k Network
> LandCover6k
> DAPS
> PEOPLE 3000

Contact

Questions can be sent to the PMIP co-coordinator:

> Masa Kageyama

Bureau members

> Masa Kageyama (LSCE / IPSL)
> Chris Brierley (UCL Department of Geography)
Additional appointees are being sought

PMIP advisory board
The advisory board will be consulted on key decisions proposed by the scientific committee and for advice on major orientations

> Pascale Braconnot (LSCE / IPSL)
> Sandy P. Harrison (University of Reading)
> Ayako Abe-Ouchi (The University of Tokyo/AORI)
> Bette Otto-Bliesner (NCAR)
> Pat Bartlein (University of Oregon)
> Alan Haywood (University of Leeds)
> Sylvie Joussaume (LSCE / IPSL)
> Johann Jungclaus (MPI-M)
> Michal Kucera (MARUM)
> Gilles Ramstein (LSCE / IPSL)
> Karl Taylor (PCMDI)
> Paul Valdes (University of Bristol)

PMIP scientific committee

The scientific committee includes the leaders of the PMIP working groups. PMIP working groups are organised around specific periods or topics

We are still looking for volunteers to lead other working groups, especially around proxy reconstructions

Note: the working groups may be renamed and are listed under their previous names

Past2K: Qiong Zhang (Stockholm University), Myriam Khodri (LOCEAN / IPSL)
Last Deglaciation: Ruža Ivanović (University of Leeds), Lauren Gregoire (University of Leeds), Didier Roche (LSCE / IPSL and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Laurie Menviel (University of New South Wales)
PlioMIP:  Alan Haywood (University of Leeds), Tamara Fletcher (University of Leeds), Ran Feng (U. Connecticut), Harry Dowsett (USGS)
> Quaternary Interglacials: Louise Sime (BAS), Christian Stepanek (AWI)
Pre-Pliocene climates: Dan Lunt (Eocene, University of Bristol), Natalie J. Burls (Miocene, George Mason University)
Past2Future: insights from a constantly varying past: Kira Rehfeld (University of Tübingen), Chris Brierley (UCL Department of Geography)
Monsoons: Liang Ning and Jian Liu (Nanjing Normal University)
PMIP-DATA: Sze Ling Ho (National Taiwan University)
PMIP data distribution: Masa Kageyama (LSCE / IPSL), Jean-Yves Peterschmitt (LSCE / IPSL)

PMIP WINGS
WINGS = Web-based INteractive Global Seminars

> Julia Hargreaves (Blue Skies Research Ltd)
> Chris Brierley (UCL Department of Geography)
> Kira Rehfeld (University of Tübingen)
> Masakazu Yoshimori (The University of Tokyo/AORI)
> Masa Kageyama (LSCE / IPSL)

Further information

Go to the official PMIP website

> Access the PowerPoint presentation for the WCRP/WGCM CMIP6 part of the PMIP meeting in December 2020.