Data for publication "Asymmetry in the climate-carbon cycle response to positive and negative CO2 emissions"

This dataset contains output from UVic ESCM simulations driven by instantaneous ('pulse') CO2 emissions and removals. File names starting with 'tsi_avg' contain annually and globally averaged variables (netcdf format). File names starting with 'tavg' contain annually averaged spatially resolved variables (netcdf format). 1) tsi files: The suffix 'Yxco2' indicates the atmospheric CO2 concentration from which the emission/removal is applied 'equil' or 'trans" indicate whether the emission/removal is applied from an equilibrium or a transient climate state (e.g. '2xco2equil' inidicates that the emission/removal is applied from a state in equilibrium with twice the pre-industrial CO2 concentration) 'spinup' indicates a spinup simulation for the given atmospheric CO2 concentration 'x00', 'negx000', indicate the size of the pulse CO2 emission and removal, respectively 'ctl' indicates a control simulation with zero CO2 emissions 'zeroemit' indicates a zero CO2 emission simulation initialized from a transient climate state '10pyr' indicates simulations with CO2 emission/removal rates of +/- 10 GtC/yr (as opposed to instantaneous emissions/removals) 'bgc' indicates bigeochemically coupled simulations 2) tavg files The first number indicates the time interval. Except for the 'spinup' files, all tavg files include ten time slices (1975-2065 for simulations initialized from 2xCO2; 2045-2135 for simulations initialized from 2xCO2). These correspond to 100-190 years after the emission/removal is applied. Files with the suffix 'landC' contain a subset of land carbon cycle variables. See article reference for further details.