Phanerozoic global climatic fields simulated using the FOAM ocean-atmosphere general circulation model

These files contain the output of Phanerozoic global climate simulations conducted using the coupled ocean-atmosphere FOAM general circulation model. They are available every 20 Myrs between 540 Ma and 0 Ma, both included. All simulations have been conducted using identical boundary conditions; pCO2: 2240 ppm, solar luminosity: 1368 W m-2, vegetation: rocky desert, orbital configuration: null eccentricity and minimum obliquity. Only the continental configuration was varied from one time slice to the other (sensitivity test to the continental configuration), using the reconstructions of Scotese and Wright (https://www.earthbyte.org/paleodem-resource-scotese-and-wright-2018/).

The reader is referred to the associated paper for a full description of the model and boundary conditions.

All file names use the following pattern: "[age]rd_1368W_EccN_[model_component]_2240ppm.nc", with [age], the age expressed in million years ago, and [model_component] being 'atmos', 'ocean' or 'coupl' (atmospheric and oceanic components, plus coupler).