Model Data from 'Irreversibility of Marine Climate Change Impacts under Carbon Dioxide Removal'

This dataset contains numerical simulations of the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model version 2.9 (UVic ESCM v2.9) forced by a set of future emission scenarios. We use Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP2.6) and its extension to year 2300 as the reference scenario and design a set of cumulative emissions and temperature overshoot scenarios based on other RCPs. This can be used to investigate to what extent overshoot and subsequent recovery of a given cumulative CO2 emissions level by Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) leaves a legacy in the Climate system. For example, we used this dataset to explore the reversibility of marine climate change impacts under CDR. The future numerical simulations were performed using computing resources provided by Westgrid and Compute Canada in 2016.