Asymmetries in the Southern Ocean contribution to global heat and carbon uptake
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Earth, Ocean & Ecological Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GP, UK.
- 2. Department of Earth, Ocean & Ecological Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GP, UK
- 3. British Antarctic Survey, Polar Oceans, Cambridge, UK
- 4. National Oceanography Centre, Marine System Modelling, Proudman building, Liverpool, L69 3GP,UK
- 5. Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
- 6. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Description
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
Contributions of Southern Ocean (frac_SO) and northern ocean (frac_NO)
heat uptake to global heat uptake, model mean and STD
frac_OHU_hist-GHG.nc
frac_OHU_historical.nc
frac_OHU_ssp245.nc
The diagnostics is based on the model outputs from the CMIP6 simulations,
available from the Earth System Grid Federation at the CMIP6 archive
https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/search/cmip6
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