Chapter 3 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 3.38 (v20220614)

Data for Figure 3.38 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 3.38 shows model evaluation of ENSO teleconnection for 2m-temperature and precipitation in boreal winter (December-January-February). --------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------- Data provided for all panels in one single directory --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains observed global patterns for: - temperature from the Berkeley Earth dataset over land - temperature from ERSSTv5 over ocean - precipitation from GPCC over land (shading, mm day–1) - precipitation from GPCP worldwide (contours, period: 1979-2014) and distributions of regression coefficients in IPCC regions for: - temperature - precipitation --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- maps: - reg_tas_NINO34_BEST_ERSSTv5_1901_2018_DJF.nc (var = 'rc', upper map over land) - reg_sst_NINO34_ERSSTv5_ERSSTv5_1901_2018_DJF.nc (var = 'rc', upper map over ocean) - reg_precip_NINO34_GPCP_ERSST5_1979_2018_DJF.nc (var = 'rc', lower map, contours) - reg_pr_NINO34_GPCC_ERSSTv5_1901_2016_DJF.nc (var = 'rc', lower map, shading) histograms: - tas_enso_regression_pdf_v4_no_cosweight_DJF.nc . upper grey histograms: var = 'region_pdfx_hist' and 'region_pdfy_hist' . MME (black line): var = 'region_ave_hist' . Observations (blue lines): var = 'region_obs' - tas_amip_hist_enso_regression_pdf_v4_no_cosweight_DJF.nc (orange dashed line): var = 'region_ave_amip_hist' => Fields correspond to regions numbers with labels in the plot, namely for temperature: 'EAU/RFE/RAR/NWN/NCA/ENA/NSA/MED/NWS/ESAF' (see variable region_info with attributes making the association between the region index and the acronym/name). - pr_enso_regression_pdf_v4_no_cosweight_DJF.nc . lower grey histograms: var = 'region_pdfx_hist' and 'region_pdfy_hist' . MME (black line): var = 'region_ave_hist' . Observations (blue lines): var = 'region_obs' - pr_amip_hist_enso_regression_pdf_v4_no_cosweight_DJF.nc (orange dahsed line): var = 'region_ave_amip_hist' => Fields correspond to regions numbers with labels in the plot, namely for precipitation: 'EAS/SEA/EAU/WNA/NCA/SES/NSA/ESAF/SEAF/MED' (see variable info_region with attributes making the association between the region index and the acronym/name). ENSO is the El Niño Southern Oscillation. GPCC is the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre. GPCP is the Global Precipitation Climatology Project. --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in reg_pr_NINO34_GPCC_ERSSTv5_1901_2016_DJF.nc are in mm/month. Values should be divided by 30 for plotting in mm/day. --------------------------------------------------- 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 - Link to the figure on the IPCC AR6 website