DOI: 10.5285/fe8d7ad6c1284677994c6643e1e55bbb
title: Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Input data for Figure 2.2 v20221111

description: Input Data for Figure 2.2 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 2.2 shows time series of solar and volcanic forcing for the past 2.5 kyr (panels a, c) and since 1850 (panels b, d). --------------------------------------------------- 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 four panels with input data provided for panels (b) and (d) in subdirectories named panel_b, and panel_d. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- Panel b: - TSI time series (6-month running averages) from CMIP6 historical forcing after 1850. (1850-2020) Panel d: - SAOD reconstruction from CMIP6 comparted to CMIP5 forcing. (1850-2020) TSI stands for total solar irradiance. SAOD stands for stratospheric aerosol optical depth. CMIP5 is the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. CMIP6 is the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- panel_b/TSI_Composite.csv - TSI composite data (orange line) panel_b/TSI_WLS_mon_1882_2008_clean.txt - CMIP5 TSI data (for red line) panel_d/tau_map_2002.txt panel_d/tau_map_2012_12b.txt TSI composite data also provided in .xlsx format which is used with the code for reproducing the data. --------------------------------------------------- Temporal Range of Data --------------------------------------------------- This dataset covers a timespan from the year 500 BCE to 2020. 2.5 kyr represents the data from the past 2500 years before 2000. --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- The files are used as input data of the code used to reproduce figure 2.2. Instructions on how to use the files in the readme file associated with the code archived on GitHub. (see the link to code 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.