Chapter 3 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 3.6 (v20220119)

Data for Figure 3.6 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 3.6 shows simulated internal variability of global surface air temperature (GSAT) versus observed changes. --------------------------------------------------- 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: Eyring, V., N.P. Gillett, K.M. Achuta Rao, R. Barimalala, M. Barreiro Parrillo, N. Bellouin, C. Cassou, P.J. Durack, Y. Kosaka, S. McGregor, S. Min, O. Morgenstern, and Y. Sun, 2021: Human Influence on 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. 423–552, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.005. --------------------------------------------------- Figure subpanels --------------------------------------------------- The figure has three panels. Files are not separated according to the panels. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- obs_gmst.nc contains - Observed GMST anomalies - Observed GMST difference between 2010-2019 and 1850-1900 historical_cmip6_gsat.nc contains - Simulated GSAT anomalies - Simulated GSAT difference between 2010-2019 and 1850-1900 of CMIP6 historical-ssp245 simulations piControl_cmip6_gsat.nc contains - Simulated GSAT anomalies - Simulated GSAT difference between the last 10 years and the first 51 years of a 170-year segment of the first 500 years of CMIP6 piControl simulations --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- Panel a: - 5-year running mean of picontrol_tas_aa in piControl_cmip6_gsat.nc o BCC-CSM2-MR: E = 3 o CMCC-CM2-SR5: E = 11 o CNRM-CM6-1: E = 12 o CNRM-ESM2-1: E = 13 o EC-Earth3: E = 15 o EC-Earth3-Veg: E = 16 o EC-Earth3-Veg-LR: E = 17 o IPSL-CM6A-LR: E = 29 o KIOST-ESM: E = 30 o MCM-UA-1-0: E = 31 Panel b: - obs_tas_aa_trend in obs_gmst.nc: black vertical lines o HadCRUT5: dataset = 1 o BerkeleyEarth: dataset = 2 o NOAAGlobalTemp-Interim: dataset = 3 o Kadow: dataset = 4 - histogram of histssp_tas_aa_trend in historical_cmip6_gsat.nc: red shading - multimodel ensemble mean of histssp_tas_aa_trend in historical_cmip6_gsat.nc: red vertical line - histogram of picontrol_tas_aa_runtrend in piControl_cmip6_gsat.nc: blue shading - multimodel ensemble mean picontrol_tas_aa_runtrend in piControl_cmip6_gsat.nc: blue vertical line Panel c: - obs_tas_aa in obs_gmst.nc: grey curves, with their 5-year running means for black curves o HadCRUT5: dataset = 1 o BerkeleyEarth: dataset = 2 o NOAAGlobalTemp-Interim: dataset = 3 o Kadow: dataset = 4 Acronyms: CMIP - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, GMST - Global mean surface temperature, GSAT - Global surface air temperature, BCC-CSM - Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model, CMMC CM - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici Climate Model, CNRM - Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques, IPSL - Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, KIOST-ESM - Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology Earth System, CRU - Climatic Research Unit, NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- Multimodel ensemble means and histograms of historical simulations are calculated after weighting individual members with the inverse of the ensemble size of the same model. ensemble_assign in each file provides the model number to which each ensemble member belongs. --------------------------------------------------- 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 3) - Link to the Supplementary Material for Chapter 3, which contains details on the input data used in Table 3.SM.1