The response of the ozone layer to quadrupled CO2 concentrations: implications for climate

Each field is separately saved as NETCDF file, containing a header and metadata (header). Each field is show on geographic coordinates, which can be longitude,latitude (for surface fields, such as surface temperature, wind at 850 hPa and precipitation rate), or latitude,vertical hybrid-pressure level (for zonal mean fields, such as temperature and wind). To open the data, NETCDF libraries should be installed in the user's own operating system. See https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ for more information.

Each NETCDF file is named using a naming convention which identifies the model used (1), the experiment (2), the time resolution (3), the field name (4), and the time covered.

Each file is named as follows:

$MODEL.$EXP.$RESOLUTION.$FIELD.$START_YEAR-$END_YEAR.nc

The data is provided in 3 sections, following the sequence described in the paper. Th first data-set section is the ozone field, the second section is the forcing data, the third section is the data from (free-running) simulations (PiControl and abrupt4xCO2) from SC-WACCM, forced with the ozone forcing.

section 1) The monthly-mean zonal mean ozone data (e.g. to produce Fig.1) is arranged as follows:

$MODEL identifies the climate model from which the ozone is taken from (CESM-WACCM; SOCOL-MPIOM; GFDL-CM3). See paper for details.

section 2) The adjusted forcing data (to produce Fig. 2) is arranged as follows:

$MODEL is "port" (i.e., CESM-PORT), $EXP identifies the model from which the ozone forcing has been derived from (corresponding to the field from section 1). Each NC file contains the annual mean SW and LW flux differences (between PERT and CTRL) at the tropopause, called "FSNR" and "FLNR", respectively. For example, port.waccm.4xCO2.annual.FORCING.0001.zm.nc identifies the forcing arising from the ozone response in CESM-WACCM. See paper for details.

section 3) The output from the climate model simulations (Fig.3-8) is arranged as follows:

$MODEL is "scwaccm" (i.e., SC-WACCM4, as described in the paper). $EXP identifies the experiment (PiControl and 4xCO2), as listed in Table 1 of the paper. 

$RESOLUTION is monthly

$FIELD can be as follows:

T --> zonal mean atmospheric temperature (3 dimensions: lat,lev,time)

U --> zonal mean zonal wind (3 dimensions: lat,lev,time)

PRECT --> precipitation rate in m/s (3 dimensions: lat,lon, time)

TREFHT --> surface temperature (3 dimensions: lon,lat,time)

U850 --> zonal wind component at 850 hPa (3 dimensions: lon,lat,time)

$START_YEAR-$END_YEAR is the time period covered by the simulation, in years.

The dimensions in each field are:

lon --> longitude

lat --> latitude

lev --> hydrid pressure level (NOTE: conversion into pressure levels is possible by using the a/b coefficients provided, and the equation provided in each NC file)

time --> days of the simulation

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