The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP)

Origins of PlioMIP building upon 20 years of geological data collection/synthesis by the US Geological Surveys' PrISM Project (Pliocene research Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping), as well as early Pliocene climate-model studies, paleoclimate modelers and proxy-data experts gathered at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, USA, in 2007 to discuss the feasibility of a coordinated multimodel and proxy-data effort.A proposal for a PlioMIP working group within PMIP was endorsed at the 2008 PMIP meeting in Estes Park Colorado, USA (pastglobalchanges. org/calendar/128659). Through two discrete phases of work (PlioMIP1 and PlioMIP2), the project has produced, contributed, or inspired more than 100 articles in peerreviewed literature.It has transformed our view of the Pliocene world, and underlined