Cloud feedback overestimated in coupled CESM2 simulations relative to AMIP simulations and satellite observations: Importance of the pattern effect and implications for climate sensitivity

README file for datasets used in:Raghuraman and Medeiros, 2026, Environmental Research Letters,"Cloud feedback overestimated in coupled CESM2 simulations relative to AMIP simulations and satellite observations: Importance of the pattern effect and implications for climate sensitivity" Point of Contact: Shiv Priyam Raghuraman, [e-mail] Cloud Radiative Kernel (CERES FBCT) FBCT_CRK.nc AMIP-piForcing (fixed forcing "ff") Surface temperature: TS_f.e21.F1850_BGC.f09_f09_mg17.CFMIP-hadisst-piForcing_en10_19.cam_0010-19.h0.200207-202212.nc Cloud fraction binned by optical depth and cloud top pressure: FISCCP1_COSP_f.e21.F1850_BGC.f09_f09_mg17.CFMIP-hadisst-piForcing_en10_19.cam_0010-19.h0.200207-202212.nc Lower tropospheric stability: LTS_ff_v1.nc AMIP (varying forcing "vf") Surface temperature: TS_f.e21.FHIST_SSP370_BGC.f09_f09_mg17.CFMIP-hadisst-vf_0001-10.cam.h0.200207-202212.nc Cloud fraction binned by optical depth and cloud top pressure: FISCCP1_COSP_f.e21.FHIST_SSP370_BGC.f09_f09_mg17.CFMIP-hadisst-vf_0001-10.cam.h0.200207-202212.nc Lower tropospheric stability: LTS_vf_v1.nc Other files used in the paper can be downloaded from their respective websites: Observations (CERES FBCT) https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/ We used Single Scanner Footprint (SSF) FluxByCldTyp – Level 3 Reanalysis (ERA5) We used skin temperature: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=download We used temperature at 1000 hPa and 700 hPa to calculate LTS: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-pressure-levels-monthly-means?tab=download CESM2 abrupt-2xCO2 https://metagrid.esgf-west.org/search/cmip6/ ts Dataset ID: CMIP6.CFMIP.NCAR.CESM2.abrupt-2xCO2.r1i1p1f1.Amon.ts.gn clisccp Dataset ID: CMIP6.CFMIP.NCAR.CESM2.abrupt-2xCO2.r1i1p1f1.CFmon.clisccp.gn ta Dataset ID: CMIP6.CFMIP.NCAR.CESM2.abrupt-2xCO2.r1i1p1f1.Amon.ta.gn CESM2 LENS2 https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/community-projects/lens2/data-sets We used the 10 members that use the smoothed CMIP6 BioMass Burning (BMB) protocol (“SMBB”). These were the only 10 realizations that ouput the needed clisccp variable.