DOI: 10.5285/70276cf6b04e4b638b4fe9b37f7651dd
title: Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 2.15 (v20211126)

description: Data for Figure 2.15 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 2.15 provides global precipitation trend maps and time series for a variety of data sources. --------------------------------------------------- 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 six panels, with data provided for panel c (precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv). Code for plotting all panels is archived on zenodo and a link is provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains observed global precipitation data from a variety of sources covering the period 1891-2019. --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- Panel c: - Data file precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv: column 2 orange solid line (upper panel) - Data file precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv: column 3 cyan solid line (upper panel) - Data file precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv: column 4 black solid line (upper panel) - Data file precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv: column 5 black dotted line (upper panel) - Data file precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv: column 7 orange solid line (lower panel) - Data file precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv: column 8 cyan solid line (lower panel) - Data file precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv: column 9 black solid line (lower panel) - Data file precipglobalavedata2019_4.csv: column 10 black dotted line (lower panel) GCPP stands for the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre. CRU TS stands for Climatic Research Unit Timeseries. GPCP stands for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project. --------------------------------------------------- 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 input data figure 2.15. - Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo.