Simulation of the last interglacial climate with the MPI/UW model. This simulation has been performed for comparison with the preindustrial climate run MPI/UW_MM_ATM_CTL_M. In this simulation the incoming solar radiation was forced to change according to the orbitatal configuration between 132 and 112 kyr BP. The forcing was 8x accelerated. Changes in landsurface parameters were NOT updated for the atmosphere. The MPI/UW earthsystem model is build up by the coupled atmosphere (ECHAM3.6)- ocean (LSG2) - vegetation (LPJ) marine biogeochemistry (HAMOCC 3) models. The latter two models encompass the complete carbon cycle permitting a predictive atmospheric pCO2 simulation. Continental ice sheets were kept fixed according to present-day conditions. The simulation was run on a NEC-SX6 (hurrikan). A synchronous-asynchronous coupling scheme was applied. Thus, the atmospheric model component was integrated only during synchronous periods. During asynchronous periods fluxes for the other model components were taken from an archive successively build-up from previous synchronous periods. Related Experiments: MPI/UW_MM_ATM_CTL preindustrial climate MPI/UW_MM_ATM_HOL Holocene (10 - 0 kyrBP) MPI/UW_MM_ATM_EEM Holocene (129 - 109 kyrBP) MPI/UW_MM_ATM_CTL_P control preindustrial run with landsurface coupling; MPI/UW_MM_ATM_CTL_M control preindustrial run without landsurface MPI/UW_MM_ATM_EEM_acc_P last interglacial (132 - 112 kyrBP); MPI/UW_MM_ATM_EEM_acc_M last interglacial (132 - 112 kyrBP); MPI/UW_MM_ATM_HOL_acc_P Holocene (10 - 0 kyrBP); MPI/UW_MM_ATM_HOL_acc_M Holocene (10 - 0 kyrBP);
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