DOI: 10.5285/38bac9051d064d4da183fff2361f5de8
title: Chapter 3 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Input data for Figure 3.27 (v20220621)

description: Input data for figure 3.27 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 3.27 shows maps of multi-decadal salinity trends for the near-surface ocean. --------------------------------------------------- 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 two subpanels, with input data provided for the upper panel. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains the global ocean salinity estimates from Durack & Wijffels (2010) based on observations from 01-01-1950 to 12-31-2019: - Mean salinity (for the Jan/1950 to Dec/2019 period, units in PSS). - Salinity change (for the same period, PSS/70-years). - Salinity change error (same period, PSS/70-years). --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- The observational data from here (top panel) is taken from the file: DurackandWijffels_GlobalOceanChanges_19500101-20191231__210122-205355_beta.nc. The fields of interest are salinity_mean (shown as black contours) and salinity_change (shown in colourscale). DurackandWijffels_GlobalOceanChanges_19500101-20191231__210122-205355_beta.nc is an updated file from Durack & Wijffels (2010). The data file DurackandWijffels_GlobalOceanChanges_19500101-20191231__210122-205355_beta.nc is an intermediate file used in 3.27, please refer to the code to generate the figure using the corresponding tools (see the link to the code in the 'Related document' section README_AR6_WG1_Chap3_Figure3_27_GlobalSeaSurfaceSalinitytrends.md at main ESMValGroup/ESMValTool-AR6-OriginalCode-FinalFigures). --------------------------------------------------- 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 code for the figure, archived on Zenodo. - Link to input data figure 2.27. - Link to the figure on the IPCC AR6 website.