DOI: 10.5285/b9303c07edb24582b45088795f347ca9
title: Chapter 7 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 7.17 (v20220721)

description: Data for Figure 7.17 from Chapter 7 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 7.17 shows time evolution of the effective radiative forcing (ERF) to the CO2 concentration increased by 1% per year until year 70 (equal to the time of doubling) and kept fixed afterwards, and surface temperature response to the CO2 forcing calculated using the emulator. --------------------------------------------------- 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: Forster, P., T. Storelvmo, K. Armour, W. Collins, J.-L. Dufresne, D. Frame, D.J. Lunt, T. Mauritsen, M.D. Palmer, M. Watanabe, M. Wild, and H. Zhang, 2021: The Earth’s Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity. 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. 923–1054, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.009. --------------------------------------------------- Figure subpanels --------------------------------------------------- The figure has 2 subpanels, with data provided for both panels. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains: - (a) Idealized radiative forcing. Time evolution of the effective radiative forcing (ERF) to the CO2 concentration increased by 1% per year until year 70 (equal to the time of doubling) and kept fixed afterwards (white line). The likely and very likely ranges of ERF indicated by light and dark orange have been assessed in Section 7.3.2.1. - (b) Emulated temperature response. Surface temperature response to the CO2 forcing calculated using the emulator with a given value of ECS, considering uncertainty in ΔF2×CO2, α, and κ associated with the ocean heat uptake and efficacy (white line). The likely and very likely ranges are indicated by cyan and blue, respectively. For comparison, the temperature response to abrupt doubling of the CO2 concentration is displayed by a grey curve. The mean, likely and very likely ranges of ECS and TCR are shown at the right (the values of TCR also presented in panel b). Further details on data sources and processing are available in the chapter data table (Table 7.SM.14). --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to Figure 7.17: - Data file: 'Figure_17_values_panel_a.csv' - Data file: 'Figure_17_values_panel_b.csv' - Data file: 'Figure_17_values_panel_b_side.csv' ERF stands for Effective Radiative Forcing. TCR stands for Transient Climate Response. --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- Data and figures for Chapter 7 are produced by the Jupyter Notebooks that live inside the notebooks directory of the Chapter 7 GitHub repository. The data provided for this figure is the output plotted data as provided by the author. --------------------------------------------------- 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 7) - Link to the Supplementary Material for Chapter 7, which contains details on the input data used in Table 7.SM.1 to 7.SM.7. - Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo - Link to the Chapter 7 GitHub repository