PMIP4 Papers

There are many researchers involved with PMIP4, so we expect that there will be many papers associated with it. There is no desire for PMIP to restrict or proscribe the manuscripts that researchers work upon. However there is clearly a role for some synthesis across various PMIP4 which may need a bit of coordination and support. Functionally we see that there is a pyramid of research activities with 3 different tiers of synthesis and coordination needed.

The lowest tier is individual authors or modelling research groups writing manuscripts focussing specifically on what interests them within particular model runs. Involvement from the wider PMIP4 community will probably only slow down the creation these mansucripts

The second tier consists of papers that look at aspects of climate across multiple models within a specific time period. The initial papers in this category are likely coordinated by the relevant working group - to ensure both that the whole community is invovled and that the paper is completed fairly quickly.

The third tier is research that looks at multiple models across multiple time periods. The first one or two manuscripts at this level will be coordinated to provide an initial synthesis of PMIP4. Once all the data is uploaded onto the ESGF, we hope that further research teams self-organise around interesting topics. The PMIP4 leadership can assist with this, if the authors request help.

Note for proper assessment in IPCC AR6 papers should be submitted by September 2019, and certainly no later than the end of December 2019 to allow for citation in IPCC AR6.

Tier 2 & 3 Papers (as of May 2019)

Subject	Experiment(s)	Contact	Working Group	Notes
Interglacial warmth	lig127k	Bette Otto-Bleisner	QUIGS	meeting in July to write
Large-scale features	midPliocene-eoi400	Alan Haywood (Leeds)	PlioMIP	1st from PlioMIP2 plans
Vegetation/climate interactions	midPliocene-eoi400	Qiong Zhang (Stockholm)	PlioMIP	2nd from PlioMIP2 plans
Global patterns and Benchmarking	lgm	Masa Kageyama & Sandy Harrison
ENSO data-model comparison	midHolocene	?	Quaternary Interglacials or P2FVar

Planned P2FVar Analyses

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