Deepak Chandan

Publications

In review

Lunt, D. J., Chandan, D., Dowsett, H. J., Haywood, A. M., Lunt, G. M., Rougier, J. C., Salzmann, U., Schmidt, G. A., Valdes, P. J., Multi-variate factorisation of numerical simulations, Geoscientific model development, in review, 2020

Zhang, Z., Li, X., Guo, C., Otterå, O. H., Nisancioglu, K. H., Tan, N., Contoux, C., Ramstein, G., Feng, R., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Brady, E., Chandan, D., Peltier, W. R., Baatsen, M. L. J., von der Heydt, A. S., Weiffenbach, J. E., Stepanek, C., Lohmann, G., Zhang, Q., Li, Q., Chandler, M. A., Sohl, L. E., Haywood, A. M., Hunter, S. J., Tindall, J. C., Williams, C., Lunt, D. J., Chan, W.-L., and Abe-Ouchi, A.: Mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation simulated in PlioMIP2, Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2020-120, in review, 2020

de Nooijer, W., Zhang, Q., Li, Q., Zhang, Q., Li, X., Zhang, Z., Guo, C., Nisancioglu, K. H., Haywood, A. M., Tindall, J. C., Hunter, S. J., Dowsett, H. J., Stepanek, C., Lohmann, G., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Feng, R., Sohl, L. E., Tan, N., Contoux, C., Ramstein, G., Baatsen, M. L. J., von der Heydt, A. S., Chandan, D., Peltier, W. R., Abe-Ouchi, A., Chan, W.-L., Kamae, Y., and Brierley, C. M.: Evaluation of Arctic warming in mid-Pliocene climate simulations, Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2020-64, in review, 2020

Haywood, A. M., Tindall, J. C., Dowsett, H. J., Dolan, A. M., Foley, K. M., Hunter, S. J., Hill, D. J., Chan, W.-L., Abe-Ouchi, A., Stepanek, C., Lohmann, G., Chandan, D., Peltier, W. R., Tan, N., Contoux, C., Ramstein, G., Li, X., Zhang, Z., Guo, C., Nisancioglu, K. H., Zhang, Q., Li, Q., Kamae, Y., Chandler, M. A., Sohl, L. E., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Feng, R., Brady, E. C., von der Heydt, A. S., Baatsen, M. L. J., and Lunt, D. J.: A return to large-scale features of Pliocene climate: the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2, Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-145, in review, 2020

Kageyama, M., Harrison, S. P., Kapsch, M.-L., Löfverström, M., Lora, J. M., Mikolajewicz, U., Sherriff-Tadano, S., Vadsaria, T., Abe-Ouchi, A., Bouttes, N., Chandan, D., LeGrande, A. N., Lhardy, F., Lohmann, G., Morozova, P. A., Ohgaito, R., Peltier, W. R., Quiquet, A., Roche, D. M., Shi, X., Schmittner, A., Tierney, J. E., and Volodin, E.: The PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3-CMIP5 simulations, Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-169, in review, 2020

In prep

  • Near and far-field expressions of Heinrich events and Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations
  • Incongruous LGM climate predictions from current climate proxies
  • The Younger-Dryas climate reversal
  • ENSO in two complementary warm climates: the mid-Pliocene warm period and the climate of the future

Published

  1. Chandan, D., & Peltier, W. R., 2020, African Humid Period precipitation sustained by robust vegetation, soil, and lake feedbacks, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088728. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088728
  2. Pontes, G.M., Wainer, I., Taschetto, A.S., Gupta, A.S., Abe-Ouchi, A., Brady, E.C., Chan, W-Le., Chandan, D., Contoux, C., Feng, R, Hunter, S.J., Kame, Y., Lohmann, G., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Peltier, W.R., Stepanek, C., Tindall, J., Tan, N., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Z., 2020, Drier tropical and subtropical Southern Hemisphere in the mid-Pliocene Warm Period. Sci Rep 10, 13458, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68884-5
  3. McClymont, E. L., Ford, H. L., Ho, S. L., Tindall, J. C., Haywood, A. M., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bailey, I., Berke, M. A., Littler, K., Patterson, M. O., Petrick, B., Peterse, F., Ravelo, A. C., Risebrobakken, B., De Schepper, S., Swann, G. E. A., Thirumalai, K., Tierney, J. E., van der Weijst, C., White, S., Abe-Ouchi, A., Baatsen, M. L. J., Brady, E. C., Chan, W.-L., Chandan, D., Feng, R., Guo, C., von der Heydt, A. S., Hunter, S., Li, X., Lohmann, G., Nisancioglu, K. H., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Peltier, W. R., Stepanek, C., and Zhang, Z., 2020, Lessons from a high-CO2 world: an ocean view from  ∼ 3 million years ago, Clim. Past, 16, 1599–1615, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1599-2020
  4. Brown, J. R., Brierley, C. M., An, S.-I., Guarino, M.-V., Stevenson, S., Williams, C. J. R., Zhang, Q., Zhao, A., Abe-Ouchi, A., Braconnot, P., Brady, E. C., Chandan, D., D’Agostino, R., Guo, C., LeGrande, A. N., Lohmann, G., Morozova, P. A., Ohgaito, R., O’ishi, R., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Peltier, W. R., Shi, X., Sime, L., Volodin, E. M., Zhang, Z., and Zheng, W., 2020, Comparison of past and future simulations of ENSO in CMIP5/PMIP3 and CMIP6/PMIP4 models, Clim. Past, 16, 1777–1805, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1777-2020
  5. Brierley, C. M., Zhao, A., Harrison, S. P., Braconnot, P., Williams, C. J. R., Thornalley, D. J. R., Shi, X., Peterschmitt, J.-Y., Ohgaito, R., Kaufman, D. S., Kageyama, M., Hargreaves, J. C., Erb, M. P., Emile-Geay, J., D’Agostino, R., Chandan, D., Carré, M., Bartlein, P. J., Zheng, W., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Q., Yang, H., Volodin, E. M., Tomas, R. A., Routson, C., Peltier, W. R., Otto-Bliesner, B., Morozova, P. A., McKay, N. P., Lohmann, G., Legrande, A. N., Guo, C., Cao, J., Brady, E., Annan, J. D., and Abe-Ouchi, A., 2020, Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations, Clim. Past, 16, 1847–1872, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1847-2020.
  6. Peltier, W. R., Ma, Y., & Chandan, D., 2020, The KPP trigger of rapid AMOC intensification in the nonlinear Dansgaard‐Oeschger relaxation oscillation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2019JC015557. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015557
  7. Chandan, D. and Peltier, W. R., 2018, On the mechanisms of warming the mid-Pliocene and the inference of a hierarchy of climate sensitivities with relevance to the understanding of climate futures, Clim. Past. doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-825-2018
  8. Chandan, D. and Peltier, W. R., 2017, Regional and global climate for the mid-Pliocene using the University of Toronto version of CCSM4 and PlioMIP2 boundary conditions, Clim. Past., 13 (7), 919-942 doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-919-2017
  9. Abreu, D., Chandan, D., Holzworth, R. H., and Strong, K.: A performance assessment of the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) via comparison with the Canadian Lightning Detection Network (CLDN), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 3, 1143-1153, doi:10.5194/amt-3-1143-2010, 2010

PhD Thesis:

Insights into the Warm Interval of the mid-Pliocene from Geodynamic and Climate Modelling, University of Toronto, 2018 (PDF)

Master Thesis:

The Internal Loading Theory of Mantle Convection, University of Toronto, 2011 (PDF)