Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Input data for Figure 2.13 (v20211022)

Input Data for Figure 2.13 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 2.13 shows the global trends in surface specific humidity and surface relative humidity over 1973-2019 --------------------------------------------------- How to cite this dataset --------------------------------------------------- When citing this dataset, please include both the data citation below (under 'Citable as') and the following citation for the report component from which the figure originates: Gulev, S.K., P.W. Thorne, J. Ahn, F.J. Dentener, C.M. Domingues, S. Gerland, D. Gong, D.S. Kaufman, H.C. Nnamchi, J. Quaas, J.A. Rivera, S. Sathyendranath, S.L. Smith, B. Trewin, K. von Schuckmann, and R.S. Vose, 2021: Changing State of the Climate System. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 287–422, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.004. --------------------------------------------------- Figure subpanels --------------------------------------------------- The figure has four panels, with input data provided for panels (a) HadISDH_blendq_1_0_0_2019f.nc and (c) HadISDH_blendRH_1_0_0_2019f.nc --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains global maps of specific and relative humidity trends over 1973-2019 --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- This dataset is the input data used in the code that generates panel (a) and panel (c) for figure 2.13 --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- The following changes to filenames were made to archive the data (due to filenaming restrictions). To use the data with any associated figure code, the filenames should be reverted. HadISDH_blendq_1_0_0_2019f.nc -> HadISDH.blendq.1.0.0.2019f.nc HadISDH_blendRH_1_0_0_2019f.nc -> HadISDH.blendRH.1.0.0.2019f.nc --------------------------------------------------- Sources of additional information --------------------------------------------------- The following weblinks are provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record: - Link to the report component containing the figure (Chapter 2) - Link to the Supplementary Material for Chapter 2, which contains details on the input data used in Table 2.SM.1 - Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo.