Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Input Data for Figure 2.12 (v20220630)

Input Data for Figure 2.12 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 2.12 shows changes in temperature through the troposphere and stratosphere, both on near-global scales and in the tropics. --------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------- Figure subpanels --------------------------------------------------- The figure has five subpanels, with intermediate data provided for panels b to e. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains trends in temperature at various atmospheric heights for 1980–2019 and 2002–2019 - for the near-global (70°N–70°S) domain. - for the tropical (20°N–20°S) region. --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- Panels b-e: each line shows the observed trend for the specified time period/region for a given data set as a function of height. - Data files: *ROM_SAF*.nc: Radio occultation RO (ROM SAF). Violet line - Data files: *UCAR*.nc: Radio occultation RO (UCAR/NOAA). Cyan line - Data files: *Wegener*.nc: Radio occultation RO (WEGC). Blue line - Data files: *ERA5*.nc: Modern reanalysis. Cyan dotted lines. - Data files: *RICH*.nc: Radiosonde. Orange line - Data files: *RAOBCORE*.nc: Radiosonde. Yellow line - Data files: *AIRS*.nc: Infrared satellite. Green line --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- There are notes guiding the user to reproduce the figure in the code associated to this dataset. Link to the code that reproduces the figure in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record. --------------------------------------------------- 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 - Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo.