The Key LPIA CCSM3 Dust Cycle Simulations: lpia.x.x_hnx

I. Top Level Description This dataset archives simulations with Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) of the dust cycle during a variety of hypothetical conditions during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. They were run on the bluefire machine operated by the Computational Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in 2011 and 2012. The simulations lpia.highstand.vegetation_h2 and lpia.glaciation.big_h2 were used in Marshall et al. (2016), the simulation lpia.lowstand.glaciation.huge_h8rf.tar was used in Sur et al. (2015), and all of the simulations were used in Soreghan et al. (2015). Those publications should be consulted about the design and use of these simulations. All of the simulations are hybridized off simulations archived on Mendeley and associated with Heavens et al. (2015). More complete documentation is included in the top-level README.TXT References: Heavens, N.G., N.M. Mahowald, G.S. Soreghan, M.J. Soreghan, C.A. Shields, 2015, A model-based evaluation of tropical climate in Pangaea during the late Palaeozoic Icehouse, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 425, 109–127, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.024. Marshall, C., D.J. Large, and N.G. Heavens, 2016, Coal derived rates of atmospheric dust deposition during the Permian, Gondwana Research, 31, 20–29, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2015.10.002. Rosenbloom, N., C. Shields, E. Brady, S. Levis, and S. Yeager, 2011, Using CCSM3 for Paleoclimate Applications, National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, CO) Technical Note, NCAR/TN-483+STR. Soreghan, G.S., N.G. Heavens, L.A. Hinnov, S.M. Aciego, and C. Simpson, 2015, Reconstructing the dust cycle in deep time: The case of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse in: D. Polly, J.J. Head, and D.L Fox, eds., Earth-Life Transitions: Paleobiology in the Context of Earth System Evolution: The Paleontology Short Course October 31, 2015., Paleo. Soc. Spec. Pap., 21, 83–120, doi:10.1017/S1089332600002977. Sur, S., J.D. Owens, G.S. Soreghan, T.W. Lyons, R. Raiswell, N.G. Heavens, and N.M. Mahowald, 2015, Extreme eolian delivery of reactive iron to late Paleozoic icehouse seas, Geology, 43, 1099–1102, doi:10.1130/G37226.1. Acknowledgments: These simulations made use of CISL-NCAR resources. Their execution and archiving were supported by the National Science Foundation under EAR-0745961, EAR-0932946, EAR-1003509, and EAR-1337363.