Idealized Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) Pacemaker

The experiments were named by the IPO phase, pre-industrial control start year, and sign of the added SST anomaly. For example, simulations with "IPO_p2p.syr1251" in the name, translates as follows: "_p2p" refers to a positive IPO initial state ("_p") , with an added positive SST anomaly (denoted by "2p"), and a starting year from the CESM1 Large Ensemble pre-industrial control of 1251. In the filenames, "p2p", "n2p", "2p2p" and "2n2p" represent idealized positive IPO experiments (denoted by the last letter being "p" or the last two letters being "2p") where positive IPO SST anomalies are added onto the model simulated SSTs.

The first letters "p", "n", "2p" or "2n" represent the initial IPO states, such as "p" representing positive IPO initial states, "n" representing negative IPO initial states, and "2p" ("2n") representing neutral IPO states trending towards positive (negative). Simulations with "p2n", "n2n","2p2n" or "2n2n" in their filenames are negative IPO experiments where negative IPO SST anomalies are added onto the model simulated SSTs.

The first one (or two) letter(s) represent the initial state of the IPO. Similarly, simulations with "p2c","n2c","2p2c","2n2c" in their filenames are neutral IPO experiments where neutral IPO SST anomalies are added onto the model simulated SSTs. The purpose for these different starting states of the IPO is to test whether the influence of the IPO on other parts of the globe depends on the initial states of the IPO.

An example would be whether the climate response would be larger in an idealized positive IPO experiments with an initial state of positive IPO rather than initial state of a negative IPO.

Note

Beyond the simulations documented above, there are additional simulations in this archive. All simulations with "1pct.syr", "2pct.syr", "IPOm_rstr2","IPOp_rstr2" in their filenames should not be used.