Published August 8, 2023 | Version v1.0
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Bern3D model output data from idealized co2 increase-decrease simulations to investigate reversibility in the Earth system

  • 1. Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland

Description

The data described below is output from the Bern3D intermediate complexity model and idealized CO2 increase-decrease simulations to investigate reversibilty and hysteresis for different maximum co2 forcings.


The data are provided as .csv and .nc files
The first row in the .csv files contains the header, which describes the variable. The naming convention is as follows:

c#k#_VARIABLE

c# indicates the maximum co2 as times pre-industrial (c2 to c5)
k# indicates the equilibrium climate sensitivity of the respective simulation in degrees C (k2 to k5)
and VARIABLE indicates the value of the respective variable, which are:
    co2:        change in atmospheric co2 concentration in [ppm]
    amoc:        change in maximum of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in [Sv]
    ohc:        change in ocean heat content in [10^24 J]
    seaice:    sea-ice area remaining as fraction of the pre-industrial cover
    Om_arag:    fraction of water with Omega_arag > 3 in the upper 175 m
    o2_thermo:    change in thermocline (200-600 m) oxygen concentration in [mmol m^-3]
for each variable a separate file exists where the variable and co2 are provided.


Spatial data to create the maps of hysteresis on a grid-cell basis are provided for the two scenarios as .nc files. The naming is as follows:

c#k#_hyst_o2thermo.nc

where c# corresponds again to maximum co2 as times pre-industrial and k# to the equilibrium climate sensitivity. The .nc files contain the coordinate (latitude, longitude) centers (lat_t, lon_t) and edges (lat_u, lon_u) as well as the hysteresis area (hystA_o2thermo) in [mmol m^-3].


The files can be readily importet in python, for example, by:
    import pandas as pd
    import xarray as xr
    
    # for the .csv files
    df = pd.read_csv('path+filename', sep=',', header=0, index_col=None)
    
    # for the .nc files
    ds = xr.open_dataset('path+filename')


For additional information or in case of questions please contact:
Aurich Jeltsch-Thömmes
aurich.jeltsch-thoemmes@unibe.ch

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Funding

COMFORT – Our common future ocean in the Earth system – quantifying coupled cycles of carbon, oxygen, and nutrients for determining and achieving safe operating spaces with respect to tipping points 820989
European Commission