CMIP5_CMIP6_monthlymean_analysis_fields_RossSeaRegion

• Main Author: Graham Rickard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Ross Sea
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7145435; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7145435

16 CMIP5 and 16 CMIP6 model surface fields for the present day period 1976 to 2005 (360 monthly means per model per variable) and a future projection period 2081 to 2100 (240 monthly means per model per variable) using RCP8.5/SSP585 for a Ross Sea Region. For each of these there are also the average 12 monthly means per model per variable. All fields have been interpolated to a common reference grid of (484,72) points for ease of inter-comparison. Reference bathymetry, and observed mean sea surface height and surface chlorophyll, are provided in bathymetry_rossregion.nc, and meanssh_rossregion.nc and meanchl_rossregion.nc, respectively, and a reference template field for the analysis sub-regions in mdcopytot_subregion_boundaries.nc. These fields have been used to produce Figure 1 in the paper. The fields are all CF-1.4 netcdf compliant. The “list” files show each individual field, 177 for CMIP5 and 189 for CMIP6. The original model datasets and user guidance can be found at https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/cmip5/ and https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/cmip6/ with the model and variable name conventions retained.