Isca_experiments_for_South_American_Drying_Main

This dataset contains all the experiments presented in Pietschnig et al. 2019: "The presence of Africa and limited soil moisture contribute to future drying of South America" (main text)

The data was produced using the open-source model Isca (Vallies et al. 2018). The code is available on github: https://github.com/ExeClim/Isca

Each file contains 30 years of monthly data (we have excluded the first ten years to allow for spin-up of the model). The control and perturbed data are stored in individual files.

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List of experiments:

From Main Text

Experiment "RC"

full_continents_newbucket_fixedSSTs_zonally_symmetric_commit7bb4387.nc (control climate)
full_continents_newbucket_fixedSSTs_zonally_symmetric_plus_2pt52K_and_2xCO2_spinup_361_commit7bb4387.nc (perturbed climate)

Experiment "RC07"

full_continents_lepref07_fixedSSTs_zonally_symmetric.nc (control climate)
full_continents_lepref07_fixedSSTs_zonally_symmetric_plus_2pt52K_and_2xCO2_spinup_361.nc (perturbed climate)

Experiment "AM"

square_South_America_newbucket_fixedSSTs_from_realworld_zonallysymm_commit7bb4387.nc (control climate)
square_South_America_newbucket_fixedSSTs_from_realworld_zonallysymm_plus_uniform_warming_and_2xCO2_spinup_361_commit7bb4387.nc (perturbed climate)

Experiment "AF"

square_Africa_newbucket_fixedSSTs_from_realworld_zonallysymm_commit7bb4387.nc (control climate)
square_Africa_newbucket_fixedSSTs_from_realworld_zonallysymm_plus_uniform_warming_and_2xCO2_spinup_361_commit7bb4387.nc (perturbed climate)

Experiment "2C"two_continents_newbucket_fixedSSTs_from_realworld_zonallysymm_commit7bb4387.nc (control climate)
two_continents_newbucket_fixedSSTs_from_realworld_zonallysymm_plus_uniform_warming_and_2xCO2_spinup_361_commit7bb4387.nc (perturbed climate)

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From Supplementary Info:

Experiment "RC", but with parametrized ocean heat transport:

full_continents_newbucket_fullnewbucketqflux_without_pogfix_commit7bb4387.nc (control climate)
full_continents_newbucket_fullnewbucketqflux_2xCO2_spinup361_without_pogfix_commit7bb4387.nc (perturbed climate)
 

Experiment "RC EquatorMax"
full_continents_newbucket_fixedSSTs_zonally_symmetric_EqMax_commit7bb4387.nc (control climate)
full_continents_newbucket_fixedSSTs_zonally_symmetric_EqMax_plus_2pt52K_and_2xCO2_spinup_361_commit7bb4387.nc (perturbed climate)

Experiment "RC EquatorMax"
two_continents_newbucket_fixedSSTs_zonally_symmetric_EqMax_commit7bb4387.nc (control climate)
two_continents_newbucket_fixedSSTs_zonally_symmetric_EqMax_plus_2pt52K_and_2xCO2_spinup_361_commit7bb4387.nc (perturbed climate)

Experiment '2C short AM':

two_continents_shortSA_newbucket_fixedSSTs_from_realworld_zonallysymm_commitfa0ee3e.nc (control climate)

two_continents_shortSA_newbucket_fixedSSTs_from_realworld_zonallysymm_plus_uniform_warming_and_2xCO2_spinup_361_commitfa0ee3e.nc (perturbed climate)