DOI: 10.5285/71c2e401df5e4798b917ae4a353daff1
title: Chapter 3 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 3.17 (v20211208)

description: Data for Figure 3.17 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 3.17 shows observed and simulated global monsoon domain, intensity, and circulation. --------------------------------------------------- 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: Eyring, V., N.P. Gillett, K.M. Achuta Rao, R. Barimalala, M. Barreiro Parrillo, N. Bellouin, C. Cassou, P.J. Durack, Y. Kosaka, S. McGregor, S. Min, O. Morgenstern, and Y. Sun, 2021: Human Influence on 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. 423–552, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.005. --------------------------------------------------- Figure subpanels --------------------------------------------------- The figure has four panels, with data provided for all panels in a single file. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains - Observed and simulated global monsoon domain and summer minus winter precipitation and 850hPa wind velocity - Global land monsoon precipitation index and Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon circulation index. --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- All data are given in global_monsoon.nc file. Panel a: - uRef & vRef: vector - prRef: shading - domainRef: domain (1 = monsoon, 0 = not monsoon) Panel b: - uMME & vMME: vector - prMME: shading - domainMME: monsoon domain (1 = monsoon, 0 = not monsoon) Panel c: - Multimodel ensemble mean and 5th-95th percentiles of GMprecip_cmip6: red curve and shading - Multimodel ensemble mean and 5th-95th percentiles of GMprecip_cmip5: blue curve and shading - Multimodel ensemble mean and 5th-95th percentiles of GMprecip_amip: yellow curve and shading - GMprecip_CMAP: black dotted curve - GMprecip_CRU-TS: black solid curve - GMprecip_GPCC: black dashed-dotted curve - GMprecip_GPCP-SG: black dashed curve Panel d: - Multimodel ensemble mean and 5th-95th percentiles of NHMcirc_cmip6: red curve and shading - Multimodel ensemble mean and 5th-95th percentiles of NHMcirc_cmip5: blue curve and shading - Multimodel ensemble mean and 5th-95th percentiles of NHMcirc_amip: yellow curve and shading - Max-min range of NHMcirc_20CRv3: grey hatching - NHMcirc_ERA-20C: black dash-dotted curve - NHMcirc_ERA5: black solid curve - NHMcirc_JRA-55: dashed curve - NHMcirc_MERRA2: dotted curve --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- Multimodel ensemble means and percentiles are calculated after weighting individual members with the inverse of the ensemble size of the same model, which is given as the weight attribute of each variable. --------------------------------------------------- Sources of additional information --------------------------------------------------- The following weblinks are provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record: - Link to the report component containing the figure (Chapter 3) - Link to the Supplementary Material for Chapter 3, which contains supporting information on the figure in Section and details on the input data used in Table 3.SM.1 - Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo.