Chapter 3 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 3.41 (v20211028)

Data for Figure 3.41 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Figure 3.41 is a summary figure showing simulated and observed changes in key large-scale indicators of climate change across the climate system, for continental, ocean basin and larger scales.

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How to cite this dataset

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When citing this dataset, please include both the data citation below (under 'Citable as') and the following citation for the report component from which the figure originates:

Eyring, V., N.P. Gillett, K.M. Achuta Rao, R. Barimalala, M. Barreiro Parrillo, N. Bellouin, C. Cassou, P.J. Durack, Y. Kosaka, S. McGregor, S. Min, O. Morgenstern, and Y. Sun, 2021: Human Influence on the Climate System. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 423–552, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.005.

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Figure subpanels

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The data of each panel is provided in a single file.

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List of data provided

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This datasets contains global and regional anomaly time-series for:

- near-surface air temperature (1850-2020)

- precipitation (1950-2014)

- sea ice extent (1979-2014)

- ocean heat content (1850-2014)

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Data provided in relation to figure

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near-surface air temperature (tas)

-fig_3_41_tas_global.nc, fig_3_41_tas_land.nc, fig_3_41_tas_north_america.nc, fig_3_41_tas_central_south_america.nc, fig_3_41_tas_europe_north_africa.nc, fig_3_41_tas_africa.nc, fig_3_41_tas_asia.nc, fig_3_41_tas_australasia.nc, fig_3_41_tas_antarctic.nc:

brown line: exp = 0, stat = 0 (mean); shaded region: stat = 1 (5th percentile) and 2 (95th percentile)

green line: exp = 1, stat = 0 (mean); shaded region: stat = 1 (5th percentile) and 2 (95th percentile)

black line: exp = 4, stat = 0 (mean)

ocean heat content (ohc)

-fig_3_41_ohc_global.nc:

brown line: ncl5 = 0, ncl6 = 0 (mean); shaded region: ncl6 = 1 (5th percentile) and 2 (95th percentile)

green line: ncl5 = 1, ncl6 = 0 (mean); shaded region: ncl6 = 1 (5th percentile) and 2 (95th percentile)

black line: ncl5 = 2, ncl6 = 0 (mean)

precipitation (pr)

-fig_3_41_pr_60N_90N.nc:

brown line: exp = 0, stat = 0 (mean); shaded region: stat = 1 (5th percentile) and 2 (95th percentile)

green line: exp = 1, stat = 0 (mean); shaded region: stat = 1 (5th percentile) and 2 (95th percentile)

black line: exp = 2, stat = 0 (mean)

sea ice extent (siconc)

-fig_3_41_siconc_nh.nc, fig_3_41_siconc_sh.nc:

brown line: exp = 0, stat = 0 (mean); shaded region: stat = 1 (5th percentile) and 2 (95th percentile)

green line: exp = 1, stat = 0 (mean); shaded region: stat = 1 (5th percentile) and 2 (95th percentile)

black line: exp = 2, stat = 0 (mean)

The ensemble spread (shaded regions) of CMIP6 data shown in figure 3.41 are the mean, 5th and 95th percentiles.

The in-file metadata labels the same ensemble spread with mean, min and max.

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Sources of additional information

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The following weblinks are provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record:

- Link to the report component containing the figure (Chapter 3)

- Link to the Supplementary Material for Chapter 3, which contains details on the input data used in Table 3.SM.1

- Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo

- Link to the figure on the IPCC AR6 website

Date (Publication): 2022-03-09T11:29:29

Date (Creation): 2022-03-09T11:29:29

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/43b0c376ad184543a1bbceeceec0e85d

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 43b0c376ad184543a1bbceeceec0e85d

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/43b0c376ad184543a1bbceeceec0e85d

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Bock, Lisa	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

IPCC-DDC
IPCC
AR6
WG1
WGI
Sixth Assessment Report
Working Group I
Physical Science Basis
Chapter 3
Human influence
large-scale indicators
Natural variability
anthropogenically-forced change
observed changes
Figure 3.41
attribution
near-surface air temperature change
precipitation change
change of sea ice extent
change in ocean heat content

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1850-01-01T12:00:00

End date: 2020-12-31T12:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

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NetCDF

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/43b0c376ad184543a1bbceeceec0e85d	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ar6_wg1/data/ch_03/ch3_fig41/v20211028	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter03.pdf	ORIGIN OF FIGURE (IPCC REPORT CHAPTER): Eyring, V., N.P. Gillett, K.M. Achuta Rao, R. Barimalala, M. Barreiro Parrillo, N. Bellouin, C. Cassou, P.J. Durack, Y. Kosaka, S. McGregor, S. Min, O. Morgenstern, and Y. Sun, 2021: Human Influence on the Climate System. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter_03_Supplementary_Material.pdf	SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL FOR REPORT CHAPTER: Eyring, V., N.P. Gillett, K.M. Achuta Rao, R. Barimalala, M. Barreiro Parrillo, N. Bellouin, C. Cassou, P.J. Durack, Y. Kosaka, S. McGregor, S. Min, O. Morgenstern, and Y. Sun: 2021, Human Influence on the Climate System Supplementary Material. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6656913	CODE FOR FIGURE (archived at Zenodo)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/figures/chapter-3/figure-3-41	Link to the figure

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14986399	Complex Citation Object: CMIP6 input data usage information for IPCC WGI AR6 figure 3.41, Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14986399

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data produced by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) by the Technical Support Unit (TSU) for IPCC Working Group I (WGI).

Data curated on behalf of the IPCC Data Distribution Centre (IPCC-DDC).

Metadata

File identifier: 43b0c376ad184543a1bbceeceec0e85d XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Chapter 3: Human influence on the climate system
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-04T03:21:31

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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