Diagnostics from CMIP6, atmospheric reanalyses, and passive-microwave observations used to examine the impact of ocean heat transport on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice

• Main Author: Aylmer, Jake R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of Reading 2024
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Arctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/1333/; https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/1333/7/README_Aylmer_2024.pdf; https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/1333/2/cmip6_atmosphere.tar.gz; https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/1333/3/cmip6_ocean.tar.gz; https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/1333/6/cmip6_sea_ice.tar.gz; https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/1333/5/reanalyses.tar.gz; https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/1333/4/passive_microwave.tar.gz

Various geophysical diagnostics calculated from model output obtained from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6), for pre-industrial control, historical, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5 simulations of 20 climate models. Diagnostics include monthly-mean sea ice area, extent, and sea ice-edge latitude, annual ocean and atmospheric meridional energy transports, and annual polar-cap averages of ocean heat content, near surface air temperature, and atmospheric vertical heat fluxes. Analogous sea ice diagnostics from passive-microwave observations, and surface temperature diagnostics from atmospheric reanalysis products (CFSR, CFSv2, ERA5, JRA-55, and MERRA-2), are also included.