DOI: 10.5285/60eeb3cce51a457cb5ee1c577a0c8674
title: Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 2.4 (v20221219)

description: Data for Figure 2.4 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 2.4 shows Atmospheric well-mixed greenhouse gases concentration from ice cores. --------------------------------------------------- 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. Please also include citations of the related publications provided at the end of this abstract. --------------------------------------------------- Figure subpanels --------------------------------------------------- The figure has two panels with data provided for all panels in the main directory. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains: - Atmospheric WMGHG concentration records during the last 800 kyr with the LGM to Holocene transition as inset. - Multiple high-resolution records over the CE --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- Subdirectory 'fig2_4_data_Feb24_2021' contains figure data with listed publications from which the datasets originate. Datasets are also provided in BADC-CSV formats as described below: Panel a: - Data file: fig2_4a_main figure_data.csv; column 2: red line (main figure); column 4: green line (main figure); column six: purple line (main figure). - Data file: fig2_4a_inset_data.csv: column 3: red line (inset); column 6: orange line (inset) Panel b: - Data file: fig2_4b_data_v2.csv: column 2: pink dot (top panel); column 5: brown dot (top panel); column 8: orange dot (top panel); column 11: red line (top panel); column 13: sky blue line (middle panel); column 15: green line (middle panel); column 18: purple square (bottom panel); column 21: blue circle N2O (bottom panel); column 24: brown dot (bottom panel); column 26: green circle (bottom panel); column 29: red circle (bottom panel); column 32: orange square (bottom panel); column 35: blue line (bottom panel) WMGHG stands for well-mixed green-house gases. LGM stands for Last Glacial Maximum. --------------------------------------------------- Temporal range of data --------------------------------------------------- This dataset covers a timespan from 800kyr ago to 2000 CE. --------------------------------------------------- Sources of additional information --------------------------------------------------- The following weblinks are provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record: - Link to the figure from 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 - Links to related publications listed below --------------------------------------------------- Related publications for figure datasets --------------------------------------------------- Please include the following citations of related publications from which the figure datasets originate. Relations to individual datasets are listed at the top of each dataset. Links are provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record. Bereiter, B., Eggleston, S., Schmitt, J., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Stocker, T. F., Fischer, H., Kipfstuhl, S., & Chappellaz, J. (2015). Revision of the EPICA Dome C CO2 record from 800 to 600-kyr before present. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061957 Loulergue, L. et al. Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years. Nature 453, 383–386 (2008) Schilt, A., Baumgartner, M., Blunier, T., Schwander, J., Spahni, R., Fischer, H., and Stocker, T. F.: Glacial-interglacial and millennialscale variations in the atmospheric nitrous oxide concentration uring the last 800 000 years, Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, 182–192, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.03.011 (2010) Köhler, P., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Schmitt, J., Stocker, T. F., & Fischer, H. (2017). 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