Antarctic time series of temperature, precipitation, and stable isotopes in precipitation from the ECHAM5/MPI-OM-wiso past1000 climate model simulation

This data set contains time series of two-metre air temperature (tas), surface temperature (ts), total precipitation (pr), oxygen-18 isotopic composition in precipitation (oxy), and deuterium isotopic composition in precipitation (dtr) from the past-millennium (800-1999 CE) simulation of the fully coupled ECHAM5/MPI-OM-wiso atmosphere-ocean general circulation model equipped with stable isotope diagnostics (Sjolte et al., 2018, Werner et al., 2016) used in the publication of Münch et al. (2021).

The data here are provided for the Antarctic region, i.e., all model grid cells south of 60° S. The model's atmospheric component was run with a T31 spectral resolution (3.75° x 3.75°) and with 19 vertical levels, resulting in a total of N = 768 model grid cells covered by this data set. Note, however, that all time series off the continent of Antarctica have been set to NA values, so that the effectively available number of model grid cells is N_eff = 442.

Time series are provided at the original monthly resolution of the model output and on annual resolution obtained from the monthly resolution data. At annual resolution, the temperature and isotopic composition data are available as normal time averages and as precipitation-weighted time averages. In addition to the time series, the spatial field of time-invariant means is supplied, also as normal and precipitation-weighted time averages.

Data are available as netcdf files and as R data files. In addition, processing code (bash and R scripts) are provided to reproduce the processing from monthly to annnual and time-invariant resolution and to read the data into the R data format. To process the R data, you will need the CRAN packages "ncdf4" and "lubridate", and the package "pfields" available on GitHub (see References).