Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models
Overview
This recipe reproduces the analysis of Meehl et al., Sci. Adv. (2020). In this paper, the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) and transient climate response (TCR) are evaluated for the CMIP6 models and put into historical context.
Available recipes and diagnostics
Recipes are stored in recipes/
recipe_meehl20sciadv.yml
Diagnostics are stored in diag_scripts/
climate_metrics/ecs.py
climate_metrics/tcr.py
climate_metrics/create_table.py
ipcc_ar5/ch09_fig09_42b.py
User settings in recipe
Script climate_metrics/ecs.py
See here.
Script climate_metrics/tcr.py
See here.
Script climate_metrics/create_table.py
calculate_mean
, bool, optional (default:True
): Calculate mean over all datasets and add it to table.calculate_std
, bool, optional (default:True
): Calculate standard deviation over all datasets and add it to table.exclude_datasets
, list of str, optional (default:['MultiModelMean']
): Exclude certain datasets when calculating statistics over all datasets and for assigning an index.patterns
, list of str, optional: Patterns to filter list of input data.round_output
, int, optional: If given, round output to given number of decimals.
Script ipcc_ar5/ch09_fig09_42b.py
See here.
Variables
rlut (atmos, monthly, longitude, latitude, time)
rsdt (atmos, monthly, longitude, latitude, time)
rsut (atmos, monthly, longitude, latitude, time)
tas (atmos, monthly, longitude, latitude, time)
References
Meehl, G. A., Senior, C. A., Eyring, V., Flato, G., Lamarque, J. F., Stouffer, R. J., Taylor, K. E. and Schlund, M., Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models, Science Advances, 6(26), eaba1981, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba1981, 2020.