Asymmetries in the Southern Ocean contribution to global heat and carbon uptake

• Main Authors: Roussenov, Vassil, Williams, Richard G., Meijers, Andrew J.S., Katavouta, Anna, Ceppi, Paulo, Rosser, Jonathan P., Salvi, Pietro
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11397243

Supporting data files in Heat_Carbon_diag_CMIP6.tar.gz, NetCDF format : (1) Carbon diagnostics Ocean carbon storage (Cstorage) and uptake (Cuptake) for each model time series of the global, north of 30N, south of 30S; four scenarios: historical, historical with GHG, historical with aerosols, SSP2-4.5 Ocean_Cstorage_CMIP6_historical.nc Ocean_Cstorage_CMIP6_historical_greenhouse_gases.nc Ocean_Cstorage_CMIP6_historical_only_aerosols.nc Ocean_Cstorage_CMIP6_ssp245.nc Ocean_Cuptake_CMIP6_historical.nc Ocean_Cuptake_CMIP6_historical_greenhouse_gases.nc Ocean_Cuptake_CMIP6_historical_only_aerosols.nc Ocean_Cuptake_CMIP6_ssp245.nc Contributions of Southern Ocean (frac_SO) and northern ocean (frac_NO) carbon uptake to global carbon uptake, model mean and STD frac_Carb_hist-GHG.nc frac_Carb_historical.nc frac_Carb_ssp245.nc Carbon flux into the ocean, model mean and STD 2D fields for all 4 scenarios Carbon_flux_Figure3_UPD.nc (2) Heat diagnostics at the Top of the Atmosphere (TOA) TOA heat uptake (N) and radiative response (dR), 2D model mean and STD for all 4 scenarios; radiative forcing (F) from balance: N = F - dR N_dR_hist-GHG.nc N_dR_hist-aer.nc N_dR_historical.nc N_dR_ssp245.nc N_F_hist-GHG_std.nc N_F_hist-aer_std.nc N_F_historical_std.nc N_F_ssp245_std.nc (3) Ocean heat uptake diagnostics Ocean surface heat uptake (heat_flux), 2D fields for each model; all 4 scenarios Spatial_heat_content_and_flux_change_historical.nc Spatial_heat_mean_flux_change_hist_aer_and_hist_GHG.nc Spatial_heat_mean_flux_change_historical_and_ssp245_new_dates.nc Time series of ocean heat content anomaly (content_anom) and cumulative ocean surface heat flux (cumulative_flux) for each model; global, Southern Ocean (SO) and northern ocean (north); all 4 scenarios SO_north_and_global_allmodel_uptake_storage_and_transport_hist-GHG.nc SO_north_and_global_allmodel_uptake_storage_and_transport_hist-aer.nc SO_north_and_global_allmodel_uptake_storage_and_transport_historical.nc SO_north_and_global_allmodel_uptake_storage_and_transport_ssp245.nc ...