Deadline for registration: April 11th,
2008
Please register early to receive preferential hotel rates
Note: this is a contribution to Phase 2 of the Paleoclimate
Modelling and Intercomparison Project (PMIP2).
On June 4-6, 2008 the first planning meeting for a Pliocene Climate
Model Intercomparison Project will be held at NASA's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies in New York. The agenda will be to design a new
series of global climate model simulations focusing on the globally
warm period of the mid-Pliocene (~3.3-3.0 Ma).
Day 1 will include presentations of previous Pliocene climate modeling
intercomparisons that have been conducted under the auspices of the
National Science Foundation - Paleoclimate Program and the Natural
Environmental Research Council in the UK. There will also discussion
of the PRISM Project digital data sets that serve as GCM boundary
conditions for mid-Pliocene simulations.
Days 2 and 3 will focus on the meeting's primary objectives of
designing the first round of intercomparison simulations and defining
specific objectives for the analyses. Prospective attendees are those
who wish to run mid-Pliocene climate simulations and are interested in
participating in the multi-model ensembles.
Space for this meeting is limited. A small amount of funding, from
various agencies, may be available for participating graduate
students. For registration information please contact: