Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for CCB 2.3, Figure 1 (v20221115)

Data for CCB 2.3, Figure 1 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). This figure shows changes in the assessment of observed global surface temperature between AR5 and AR6. --------------------------------------------------- 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 two panels with data provided for all panels. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- - The upper panel provides a graphical summary of the text in CCB2.3 which describes how the assessment of observed global surface temperature change has changed between AR5 and AR6. - The lower panel shows observed global mean surface temperature from 1850 to the latest date available, as assessed in AR5 (finishes 2012) and AR6 (finishes 2020). --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- Upper panel: - Data file: CCB_2_3_upper_panel_data_file.csv, column 2: Lower bound - Data file: CCB_2_3_upper_panel_data_file.csv, column 3: Central estimate - Data file: CCB_2_3_upper_panel_data_file.csv, column 4: Upper bound Lower panel: - Data file: CCB_2_3_lower_panel_data_file.csv, column 2: blue line - Data file: CCB_2_3_lower_panel_data_file.csv, column 3: orange line (1880-2012) - Data file: CCB_2_3_lower_panel_data_file.csv, column 4: dotted blue line - Data file: CCB_2_3_lower_panel_data_file.csv, column 5: faint orange line (1850-1880) --------------------------------------------------- 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