Input Data for Figure 7.5 from Chapter 7 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Figure 7.5 shows net aerosol effective radiative forcing (ERF) from different lines of evidence.

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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:
Forster, P., T. Storelvmo, K. Armour, W. Collins, J.-L. Dufresne, D. Frame, D.J. Lunt, T. Mauritsen, M.D. Palmer, M. Watanabe, M. Wild, and H. Zhang, 2021: The Earth’s Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity. 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. 923–1054, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.009.

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Figure subpanels
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The figure has 1 panel, with input data provided for this panel.

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List of data provided
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This dataset contains:

- Net aerosol effective radiative forcing (ERF), in W m-2, from:
- AR5 assessment
- AR6 assessment comprising the following:
(Energy balance constraints [–2 to 0 W m–2 with no best estimate])
(Observational evidence from satellite retrievals of –1.4 [–2.2 to –0.6] W m–2)
(Combined model-based evidence of –1.25 [–2.1 to –0.4] W m–2)

The headline AR6 assessment of –1.3 [–2.0 to –0.6] W m–2 is highlighted in purple for 1750–2014 and compared to the AR5 assessment of –0.9 [–1.9 to –0.1] W m–2 for 1750–2011. The evidence comprising the AR6 assessment is shown below this (shown in brackets in the list of data provided).

Estimates from individual CMIP5 (Zelinka et al., 2014) and CMIP6 (Smith et al., 2020b and Table 7.6) models are depicted by blue and red crosses respectively.
For each line of evidence the assessed best-estimate contributions from ERFari and ERFaci are shown with darker and paler shading respectively.
The observational assessment for ERFari is taken from the IRFari.
Uncertainty ranges are represented by black bars for the total aerosol ERF and depict very likely ranges.

Further details on data sources and processing are available in the chapter data table (Table 7.SM.14).

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Data provided in relation to figure
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Data provided in relation to Figure 7.5

- Data file: table7.6.csv

CMIP5 is the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.
CMIP6 is the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.
ERFari stands for Effective Radiative Forcing of aerosol-radiation interaction.
ERFaci stands for Effective Radiative Forcing of aerosol-cloud interaction.
IRFari stands for Instantaneous Radiative Forcing of aerosol-radiation interaction.

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Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data
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Data and figures are produced by the Jupyter Notebooks that live inside the notebooks directory of the Chapter 7 GitHub repository.
The notebook to produce this figure uses Table 7.6 from the report chapter and data from Zelinka et al., 2014 written into the code.
To reproduce the figure from the input data provided here ('table7.6.csv'), you will need to edit the path in box 5 of the notebook based on your local directory structure.

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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 figure on the IPCC AR6 website
- Link to the report component containing the figure (Chapter 7)
- Link to the Supplementary Material for Chapter 7, which contains details on the input data used in Table 7.SM.1 to 7.SM.7.
- Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo,
- Link to the notebook for plotting the figure from the Chapter 7 GitHub repository which also contains input data files