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Dataset

 

Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 2.22 (v20211109)

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2022-11-18
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2023-05-16
DOI Publication Date: 2023-07-03
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 3 Files | 9KB

Abstract

Data for Figure 2.22 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Figure 2.22 shows the April snow cover extent (SCE) for the Northern Hemisphere over the 1922-2018 period.

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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:
Gulev, S.K., P.W. Thorne, J. Ahn, F.J. Dentener, C.M. Domingues, S. Gerland, D. Gong, D.S. Kaufman, H.C. Nnamchi, J. Quaas, J.A. Rivera, S. Sathyendranath, S.L. Smith, B. Trewin, K. von Schuckmann, and R.S. Vose, 2021: Changing State of 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. 287–422, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.004.

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List of data provided
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This dataset contains Northern Hemisphere April snow cover extent (SCE) time series from 1922-2018 for:

- Observed SCE (1922-1991) from Brown (2000)
- Blended Multi-observation SCE dataset (1967-2018) from Mudryk et al. (2020)
- Upper and lower boundary for uncertainty range for each time series

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Data provided in relation to figure
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Data provided in relation to Figure 2.22
Data file: Apr_snow_cover_extent_SCE.csv; (yearly data) relates to data for blue line (Brown 2000) and red line (Multi-obs Mudryk et al. 2020) and the upper and lower boundaries for uncertainty range (shaded area) for each time series

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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 2)
- Link to the Supplementary Material for Chapter 2, which contains details on the input data used in Table 2.SM.1

Citable as:  Smith, S.; Mudryk, L. (2023): Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 2.22 (v20211109). NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 03 July 2023. doi:10.5285/8bbebd486eed4b7392dd306462e3f724. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/8bbebd486eed4b7392dd306462e3f724
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: IPCC-DDC, IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, AR6, WG1, WGI, Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group I, Physical Science Basis, Chapter 2, Changing state, Multi-millennial context, pre-industrial, Natural forcing, anthropogenic forcing, Radiative forcing, Large-scale indicators, observed changes, Modes of variability, Figure 2.22, Snow cover extent, Northern Hemisphere

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Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s):
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

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).

Data Quality:
Data as provided by the IPCC
File Format:
CSV

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

Caption for Figure 2.22 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)

Abstract

April snow cover extent (SCE) for the Northern Hemisphere (1922–2018). Shading shows very likely range. The trend over the entire 1922–2018 period (black line) is –0.29 (± 0.07) million km2 per decade. Further details on data sources and processing are available in the chapter data table (Table 2.SM.1)

Input Description

None

Output Description

None

Software Reference

None

  • var_id: 2
  • long_name: April SCE from Brown
  • units: million square km
  • var_id: 5
  • units: million square km
  • long_name: Blended April SCE
  • units: 1
  • var_id: 6
  • long_name: Lower boundary uncertainty range
  • units: 1
  • var_id: 7
  • long_name: Upper boundary uncertainty range
  • long_name: Year
  • var_id: 1
  • units: Year

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1922-04-01T12:00:00
End time:
2018-04-30T12:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
0.0000°