edu.ucar.opensky::articles:12998 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T03:40:23.097077 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d78p61f1 Mid-Pliocene East Asian monsoon climate simulated in the PlioMIP 2013-09-03T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d78p61f1 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-2085-2013 Zhang, R. author Yan, Q. author Zhang, Z. author Jiang, D. author Otto-Bliesner, Bette author Haywood, A. author Hill, D. author Dolan, A. author Stepanek, C. author Lohmann, G. author Contoux, C. author Bragg, F. author Chan, W. author Chandler, M. author Jost, A. author Kamae, Y. author Abe-Ouchi, A. author Ramstein, G. author Rosenbloom, Nan author Sohl, L. author Ueda, H. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Based on simulations with 15 climate models in the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP), the regional climate of East Asia (focusing on China) during the mid-Pliocene is investigated in this study. Compared to the pre-industrial, the multi-model ensemble mean (MMM) of all models shows the East Asian summer winds (EASWs) largely strengthen in monsoon China, and the East Asian winter winds (EAWWs) strengthen in south monsoon China but slightly weaken in north monsoon China in the mid-Pliocene. The MMM of all models also illustrates a warmer and wetter mid-Pliocene climate in China. The simulated weakened mid-Pliocene EAWWs in north monsoon China and intensified EASWs in monsoon China agree well with geological reconstructions. However, there is a large model–model discrepancy in simulating mid-Pliocene EAWW, which should be further addressed in the future work of PlioMIP. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. None eng geoscientificInformation