Data for Figure 3.28 from Chapter 3 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Figure 3.28 shows long-term trends in halosteric and thermosteric sea level in CMIP6 models and observations.

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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 panels (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), with data provided for all panels in subdirectories named panel_a, panel_b, panel_c, panel_d, panel_e and panel_f.

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List of data provided

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The datasets contains: 

- Atlantic and Pacific halosteric sea level trend from CMIP6 models (1950-2014)

- Atlantic and Pacific halosteric sea level trend from Durack&Wijffels observations (1950-2019)

- Atlantic and Pacific halosteric sea level trend from EN4 observations (1950-2019)

- Atlantic and Pacific halosteric sea level trend from Ishii observations (1955-2019)

- Atlantic and Pacific thermosteric sea level trend from CMIP6 models (1950-2014)

- Atlantic and Pacific thermosteric sea level trend from Durack&Wijffels observations (1950-2019)

- Atlantic and Pacific thermosteric sea level trend from EN4 observations (1950-2019)

- Atlantic and Pacific thermosteric sea level trend from Ishii observations (1955-2019)

- Global halosteric sea level trends from Durack&Wijffels observations (1950-2019)

- Global halosteric sea level trends from EN4 observations (1950-2019)

- Global halosteric sea level trends from Ishii observations (1955-2019)

- Global halosteric sea level trends from CMIP6 multi-model mean (1950-2014)

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Data provided in relation to figure

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- panel_a/halosteric_trends_hist-nat.csv has data for green and black markers.

- panel_a/halosteric_trends_historical.csv has data for orange and black markers.

- panel_b/thermosteric_trends_hist-nat.csv has data for green and black markers.

- panel_b/thermosteric_trends_historical.csv has data for orange and black markers.

- panel_c/halosteric_trends_map_DW.nc has data for filled colored contours.

- panel_d/halosteric_trends_map_EN4.nc has data for filled colored contours.

- panel_e/halosteric_trends_map_Ishii.nc has data for filled colored contours.

- panel_f/halosteric_trends_map_cmip6.nc has data for filled colored contours.

For panels a and b details about the data provided in relation to the figure in the header of every file.

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

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Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data

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The observational data from here (top right panel) is taken from the file:

DurackandWijffels_GlobalOceanChanges_19500101-20191231__210122-205355_beta.nc. The field of interest are salinity_mean (shown as black contours) and salinity_change (shown in colourscale). The file was archived as input data for Figure 2.27. The link to this dataset is provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record.

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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 input dataset for figure 3.28

- Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo

- Link to the figure on the IPCC AR6 website