DOI: 10.5285/0915a82fa8a84e21bcb5467be84d49fc
title: Chapter 3 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 3.22 (v20220613)

description: Data for Figure 3.22 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 3.22 shows time series of Northern Hemisphere March-April mean snow cover extent (SCE) from observations, CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations. --------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------- There are technically two panels top and bottom (CMIP5 and CMIP6), however, the data is stored in the parent directory. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- The data is for the Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent anomalies (SCEA) from models and observations: - The SCEA observational data from GLDAS-NOAH (1948-2012), Brown-NOAA (1923-2017), Mudryk et al 2020 (1968-2017) - The SCEA modelled by CMIP5 historical-rcp45 experiment (1923-2017) - The SCEA modelled by CMIP5 historicalNat experiment (1923-2012) - The SCEA modelled by CMIP6 historical-ssp245 experiment (1923-2017) - The SCEA modelled by CMIP6 hist-nat experiment (1923-2017) - The SCEA modelled by CMIP5 and CMIP6 piControl experiments --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- snow_cover_extent_cmip5_obs.csv is the data for the green and brown lines and shadings in the upper panel and grey lines (1923-2017) snow_cover_extent_cmip6_obs.csv is the data for the green and brown lines and shadings in the lower panel and grey lines (1923-2017) snow_cover_extent_piControl.csv for the blue error bars in the both panels Additional details of data provided in relation to figure in the file header (BADC-CSV file) CMIP5 is the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. CMIP6 is the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. --------------------------------------------------- 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 Supplementary Material for Chapter 3, which contains details on the input data used in Table 3.SM.1 - Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo.