Record Label : volc-pinatubo-strat
Record Title : Pinatubo experiment with partial radiative forcing, includes only stratospheric warming
Record identifier : f16f97b6-dd9e-11e6-b89b-ac72891c3257
Description : 1991 Pinatubo forcing is expressed with a prescribed perturbation to the total (LW+SW) radiative heating rates. Maintain the same constant boundary forcing as the pre-industrial control integration, except for the volcanic forcing. Requires special diagnostics of parameterised and resolved wave forcings, radiative and latent heating rates. The experiment will not account for the actual climate conditions when the real event occured (e.g., presence and strength of additional forcing factors). Instead, the experiment is designed to span very different initial climate states to systematically assess uncertainties in the post-eruption behaviour that are related to background climate conditions. Sampling of an eastern phase of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO), as observed after the 1991 Pinatubo eruption is preferred for those models that spontaneously generate such mode of stratospheric variability. Run at least 25 ensemble members for 3 years.
Identifier for experiment group : VolcPinatubo
MIP defining experiment : VolMIP
Model Source Types : AOGCM | AER CHEM BGC
Tier of Experiment : 1
Number of Start Dates : 1
Start year :
End year :
Years per Simulation Including all Start Years : 3
Ensemble size : 25
Total number of years : 75
Comment : As volc-pinatubo-full, but with prescribed perturbation to the total (LW+SW) radiative heating rates