Richard Matear
Date/Time: Friday 9^th March, 15:30 – 16:30
Venue: IMAS Sandy Bay seminar room

Abstract:
Earth System models (ESM) are the primary tool for projecting the response of the Earth system to anthropogenic emissions of atmospheric greenhouse gases. One of the uncertainties in future climate projections relates to our ability to simulate the complex climate system. Here, I present a novel ESM simulation of the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) that produces realistic behaviour compared to paleo-observations. The paleosimulations are used to explore the implications of a changing ocean carbon cycle on corals and plankton calcifiers. Surprisingly, the simulations suggest that the LGM was more favourable to biological calcification than during the preindustrial.