Data for Figure 3.15 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Figure 3.15 shows observed and simulated time series of anomalies in zonal average annual mean precipitation.

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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 figure has six panels, with data provided for five panels in subdirectories named panel_a, panel_c, panel_d, panel_e and panel_f.

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List of data provided

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This dataset contains:

- Observed precipitation change (1950-2014).

- Historical anthropogenic and natural precipitation change (1950-2014).

- Historical natural-only precipitation change (1950-2014).

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Data provided in relation to figure

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- panel_a/fig_3_15_a.nc (yearly data, 1950-2014); observed and CMIP6 data (also shaded areas)

- panel_c/fig_3_15_c.nc (yearly data, 1950-2014); observed and CMIP6 data (also shaded areas)

- panel_d/fig_3_15_d.nc (yearly data, 1950-2014); observed and CMIP6 data (also shaded areas)

- panel_e/fig_3_15_e.nc (yearly data, 1950-2014); observed and CMIP6 data (also shaded areas)

- panel_f/fig_3_15_f.nc (yearly data, 1950-2014); observed and CMIP6 data (also shaded areas)

* brown line: exp = 0, stat = 0

* green line: exp = 1, stat = 0

* shaded regions: exp  = 1 or 2, stat = 1 and 2

* black lines: exp = 2, stat = 0 (GHCN), stat = 1 (GPCP-SG), stat = 2 (CRU)

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

GHCN is the Global Historical Climatology Network.

GPCP-SG refers to the Global Precipitation Climatology Project and Satellite-Guage combined precipitation dataset.

CRU refers to the Climatic Research Unit gridded Time Series climate dataset.

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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.