Phanerozoic global climatic fields simulated using the mixed-layer general circulation model FOAM

These files contain the output of Phanerozoic global climate simulations conducted using the “slab” mixed-layer ocean-atmosphere general circulation model FOAM. They are available every 20 Myrs between 540 Ma and 0 Ma, both included. Boundary conditions were adapted to best match each time slice. Continental reconstructions were taken from Scotese and Wright (https://www.earthbyte.org/paleodem-resource-scotese-and-wright-2018/). We defined pCO2 after the proxy data compilation of Foster et al. (doi:10.1038/ncomms14845) when available and Krause et al. (dot:10.1038/s41467-018-06383-y) for older time slices. Solar luminosity followed Gough et al. (doi:10.1007/BF00151270). Continental vegetation was set to Modern-like latitudinal bands between 0 Ma and 100 Ma (included), tropical evergreen, broad-leaved forest between 120 Ma and 360 Ma (included), tundra between 380 Ma and 440 Ma (included) and rocky desert afterwards. The orbital configuration was set to null eccentricity and minimum obliquity. 

The reader is referred to the associated paper for a full description of the model and boundary conditions.

All model output file names use the following pattern: « [age]ebP2_solCgough1981_EccN_pCO2FosterKr_[model_component] _slab.nc", with [age], the age expressed in million years ago, and [model_component] being 'atmos' or 'coupl' (atmospheric component or coupler). For each time slice, the topography-bathymetry data used in FOAM is also provided (« Topobathy_[age]eb_postslarti_cor.nc »).