Data for manuscript "Mid-Pliocene glaciation preceded by a 0.5-million-year North African humid period"

This repository contains model data accompanying the manuscript:

Udara Amarathunga, Eelco J. Rohling, Katharine M. Grant, Alexander Francke, James Latimer, Robert M. Klaebe, David Heslop, Andrew P. Roberts and David K. Hutchinson, 2024: Mid-Pliocene glaciation preceded by a 0.5-million-year North African humid period, Nature Geoscience, 10.1038/s41561-024-01472-8 

There are three main folders:

inputs.tgz: containing input files for each simulation

outputs.tgz: containing model outputs (as shown in the manuscript)

restarts.tgz: containing restart file bundles for the end of each simulation.

There are three experiments, as described in the manuscript. These are labelled:

early_plio: Early Pliocene (3.312 - 5.3 Myr)

plio_glac: M2 glacial (3.264 - 3.312 Myr)

plio_m2: Mid-Pliocene glacials (3.0 - 3.264 Myr)

The output data are either monthly or annual frequency, as indicated by the filename. 3D ocean outputs are in annual frequency only, while some surface 2D ocean fields are provided at monthly resolution. 3D atmosphere outputs are in monthly frequency.

All data are provided in self-describing netcdf format.

The model uses GFDL CM2.1, reconfigured with MOM5.1, which is available to download from https://github.com/mom-ocean/MOM5.