CESM1.2 Ocean Model Output for Eocene Including Neodymium and Oxygen Isotopes

Included are 100 years of monthly mean ocean model output from CESM1.2 integrations for the Eocene carried out by Adam Aleksinski and Matthew Huber, with critical assistance from Alexandra Jahn, and with assistance and support from Jiang Zhu (NCAR). These simulations were carried out at NCAR. These simulations incorporate results using the standard Eocene Deepmip 1 boundary conditions (Lunt et al, 2017), including the boundary condition datasets (Herold et al., 2014), and were branched off originally from simulations carried out at NCAR by Jiang Zhu (Zhu et al., 2020). The three simulations included here incorporate neodymium in them for the first time and span a range of CO2 and gateway configurations that make it appropriate for the Middle Eocene to late Eocene.
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<br>The continuation (“SF_SU_55Ma_init-hycont”) experiment run continued from the end of Zhu et al. (2020)’s 3x preindustrial pCO2 (854.1 ppm) experiment, which used DeepMIP compliant geography and bathymetry for simulating the early Eocene. This simulation was run for a total of 4,800 years. Two runs each branched from this SF_SU_55Ma_init-hycont after 1,200 years of runtime, and each ran for 3,600 years after that point. In the Open Drake Passage experimental run (SF_SU_55Ma_open-hycont), the atmospheric pCO2 concentration from the continuation simulation was retained, and the bathymetry of the Drake Passage and Tasman Seaway were both lowered to a depth of 1973 mbsl. In the Halved pCO2 experiment SF_SU_55Ma_cool), the Herold et al original bathymetry was retained, but atmospheric pCO2 was reduced by a factor of half, to 427.05 ppm.
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<br> The model output is global in extent and is netcdf format, which has been tarred and gzipped, and follows standard conventions for ocean GCMs. The data are on an irregular 'POP' grid. All the necessary information to read and process these data are included in the netcdf metadata.