A. Ganopolski

TL;DR: A 2.5-dimensional climate system model of intermediate complexity CLIMBER-2 and its perfor- mance for present climate conditions are presented in this article, which consists of modules describing atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, land surface processes, terrestrial vege- tation cover, and global carbon cycle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify eleven interglacials in the last 800,000 years, a result that is robust to alternative definitions, such as the onset of an interglacial (glacial termination) seems to require a reducing precession parameter (increasing Northern Hemisphere summer insolation), but this condition alone is insufficient.

TL;DR: In this paper, a continuous vegetation classification based on two main plant functional types (tree and grass) was proposed, and correspondence between climate and these vegetation types on a global scale was analysed on the basis of state-of-the-art global climate and vegetation datasets.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of sensitivity experiments with the climate system model of intermediate complexity CLIMBER-2 was performed to compare its sensitivity to changes in different types of forcings and boundary conditions with the results of comprehensive models (GCMs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a comprehensive Earth system model of intermediate complexity to demonstrate that both strong 100 kyr periodicity in the ice volume variations and the timing of glacial terminations during past 800 kyr can be successfully simulated as direct, strongly nonlinear responses of the climate-cryosphere system to orbital forcing alone, if the atmospheric CO2 concentration stays below its typical interglacial value.