Chapter 3 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 3.25 (v20220614)

Data for Figure 3.25 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Figure 3.25 shows CMIP6 potential temperature and salinity biases for the global ocean, Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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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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There are panels (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h). The data is in respective subdirectories.

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List of data provided

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The dataset contains modelled and observational ocean data (1981-2010) for different ocean basins (global, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian):

- Potential temperature from WOA18 observations

- Salinity from WOA18 observations

- Potential temperature bias (CMIP6 - WOA18)

- Salinity bias (CMIP6 - WOA18)

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Data provided in relation to figure

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Panel a

- panel_a/potential_temperature_bias_global_panel_a.nc: data for colored filled contours showing temperature bias from 1981 to 2010

- panel_a/WOA_potential_temperature_global_panel_a.nc: data for black contours showing WOA18 temperature from 1981 to 2010

Panel b

- panel_b/salinity_bias_global_panel_b.nc: data for colored filled contours showing salinity bias from 1981 to 2010

- panel_b/WOA_salinity_global_panel_b.nc: data for black contours showing WOA18 salinity from 1981 to 2010

Panel c

- panel_c/potential_temperature_bias_atlantic_panel_c.nc: data for colored filled contours showing temperature bias from 1981 to 2010

- panel_c/WOA_potential_temperature_atlantic_panel_c.nc: data for black contours showing WOA18 temperature from 1981 to 2010

Panel d

- panel_d/salinity_bias_atlantic_panel_d.nc: data for colored filled contours showing salinity bias from 1981 to 2010

- panel_d/WOA_salinity_atlantic_panel_d.nc: data for black contours showing WOA18 salinity from 1981 to 2010

Panel e

- panel_e/potential_temperature_bias_pacific_panel_e.nc: data for colored filled contours showing temperature bias from 1981 to 2010

- panel_e/WOA_potential_temperature_pacific_panel_e.nc: data for black contours showing WOA18 temperature from 1981 to 2010

Panel f

- panel_f/salinity_bias_pacific_panel_f.nc: data for colored filled contours showing salinity bias from 1981 to 2010

- panel_f/WOA_salinity_pacific_panel_f.nc: data for black contours showing WOA18 salinity from 1981 to 2010

Panel g

- panel_g/potential_temperature_bias_indian_panel_g.nc: data for colored filled contours showing temperature bias from 1981 to 2010

- panel_g/WOA_potential_temperature_indian_panel_g.nc: data for black contours showing WOA18 temperature from 1981 to 2010

Panel h

- panel_h/salinity_bias_indian_panel_h.nc: data for colored filled contours showing salinity bias from 1981 to 2010

- panel_h/WOA_salinity_indian_panel_h.nc: data for black contours showing WOA18 salinity from 1981 to 2010

CMIP6 is the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.

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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.

Date (Publication): 2022-06-24T15:51:40

Date (Creation): 2022-06-24T15:51:40

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/dce3253d984c4342899b01548f52ba5f

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / dce3253d984c4342899b01548f52ba5f

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/dce3253d984c4342899b01548f52ba5f

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Unavailable	Malinina, Elizaveta	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	de Mora, Lee	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

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Keywords

IPCC-DDC
IPCC
AR6
WG1
WGI
Sixth Assessment Report
Working Group 1
Physical Science Basis
Potential Temperature
Salinity
Atlantic ocean
Pacific ocean
Indian ocean

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1981-01-01T12:00:00

End date: 2010-12-31T12:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are netCDF formatted

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/dce3253d984c4342899b01548f52ba5f	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ar6_wg1/data/ch_03/ch3_fig25/v20220614	DOWNLOAD

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.6778982	CODE FOR FIGURE (archived at Zenodo)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter_03.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/figures/chapter-3/figure-3-25/	LINK TO FIGURE

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14986365	Complex Citation Object: CMIP6 input data usage information for IPCC WGI AR6 figure 3.25, Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14986365

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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).

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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: 2026-03-11T03:26:50

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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