DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2540876
title: Data for manuscript "Mechanisms and Impacts of a Partial AMOC Recovery Under Enhanced Freshwater Forcing"

description: <strong>Data repository for manuscript "Mechanisms and Impacts of a Partial AMOC Recovery Under Enhanced Freshwater Forcing"</strong>

Here we describe the data stored in this archive, which has been used for the manuscript "Mechanisms and Impacts of a Partial AMOC Recovery Under Enhanced Freshwater Forcing", submitted to Geophysical Research Letters. This data archive includes two primary folders, one containing the CESM data and one containing the 2D model data. Within each of those folders are appropriately titled subfolders for the different model simulations and variables, in accordance with the descriptions provided in the manuscript. The following provides a description of the data within each folder: 

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-------------  CESM DATA  --------------<br>
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The CESM data folder has been split into four subfolders, one for each simulation: Control simulation (CESM_controlrun), 0.1 Sv freshwater flux simulation (CESM_0pt1Sv_FWFrun), the longer repeat of the 0.1 Sv freshwater flux simulation (CESM_0pt1Sv_FWFrun_repeat), and the 0.15 Sv freshwater flux simulation (CESM_0pt15Sv_FWFrun). Within each of these can be found folders for each of the 6 variables we have used: 4D temperature fields (TEMP), 4D salinity fields (SALT), 4D potential density fields (PD), 3D MOC fields (MOC), 3D mixed layer depth fields (HMXL), and 2D meridional heat transport fields (N_HEAT). Each CESM data file (one per monthly time step) is saved in netcdf format (.nc4), containing all appropriate dimensional data and descriptive meta data. Note that only the data used in the manuscript has been stored (e.g. only MOC data is provided for the CESM_0pt15Sv_FWFrun, while all fields have been provided for the CESM_0pt1Sv_FWFrun). 

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------------  2D MODEL DATA  -----------<br>
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As described in the manuscript, the 2D model has been run using various choices of input parameter and freshwater flux. For each selection of parameter choice a new control run is first required, from which a set of experiments is then initiated. The 2D model data folder therefore contains 2 main subfolders, one containing the control run data for each of set of parameter choices (control_runs),and one containing the freshwater perturbation experiments for each set of parameter choices (fwp_change_exps). Within those, each control and experiment folder is titled according to the choices of vertical viscosity (kvd), Southern Ocean wind stress perturbation (txp), and the freshwater perturbation (fwp); when absent from the title, the default value for that variable is used (i.e. kvd=1e4 m2/s; txp=0.2 N/m2). The naming convention for the Southern Ocean wind stress is minpt07 for 0.13  N/m2 (i.e. minus 0.07) and pt07 for 0.27 N/m2. 

Model output data has been provided in ascii format for: the 2D Eulerian AMOC fields (MOC_EUL.dat.dat), 2D Quasi-Lagrangian fields (MOC_QLag.dat), 2D Salinity fields (salt2D.dat), 2D temperature fields (temp2d.dat), 2D density fields (rho.dat), the latitude values (ytdeg.dat; ydeg.dat) and depth values (zt.dat, zw.dat), and the timeseries values for a number of variables (timeseries.dat): The timeseries.dat data has 19 columns, of which the first 13 are useful: 

  column:    description:<br>
       1       time (year)<br>
       2       mean basin temperature  (deg.C)<br>
       3       mean basin salinity  (psu)<br>
       4       mean basin density  (kg/m3)     <br>
       5       kinetic energy (KE) density<br>
       6       potential energy (PE)<br>
       7       mean surface heat flux<br>
       8       mean surface salinity flux<br>
       9       minimum meridional overturning streamfunction (Sv)<br>
       10      maximum meridional overturning streamfunction (Sv)<br>
       11      minimum advective poleward heat transport  (PW)<br>
       12      maximum advective poleward heat transport  (PW)<br>
       13      MOC (Sv) = max(psi) in the north Atlantic

The final subfolder in the 2D model directory is titled 'additional_data': The first folder contains the snapshot data (fwp025_snapshots; one subfolder for each snapshot) for the experiment run with 25 cm/s freshwater flux as shown in Fig. S6, in which the data is stored in the same format as described above. The second folder contains the tendency terms as shown in Fig. S7 (fwp025_tendency; one subfolder per tendency term for each of the control and 25 cm/s freshwater flux experiment), in which the data is provided in ascii format for the 2D tendency term and the depth and latitude values.