Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 2.22 (v20211109)

Data for Figure 2.22 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 2.22 shows the April snow cover extent (SCE) for the Northern Hemisphere over the 1922-2018 period. --------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains Northern Hemisphere April snow cover extent (SCE) time series from 1922-2018 for: - Observed SCE (1922-1991) from Brown (2000) - Blended Multi-observation SCE dataset (1967-2018) from Mudryk et al. (2020) - Upper and lower boundary for uncertainty range for each time series --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to Figure 2.22 Data file: Apr_snow_cover_extent_SCE.csv; (yearly data) relates to data for blue line (Brown 2000) and red line (Multi-obs Mudryk et al. 2020) and the upper and lower boundaries for uncertainty range (shaded area) for each time series --------------------------------------------------- Sources of additional information --------------------------------------------------- The following weblinks are provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record: - Link to the figure on the IPCC AR6 website - 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