Climate Experiment Forcings
The table below shows the forcings used in the climate experiments that are being made available through the FACTS website.Experiment Identifiers | Forcings1 | ||||
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Experiment Name2 | File Name ID3 | Sea Surface Temperature (SST) | Sea Ice | Greenhouse Gases (GHG) | Ozone |
AMIP with Observed Radiative Forcing | amip_obs_rf | Obs | Obs | Obs | Obs |
AMIP with Observed Radiative Forcing/ERSST v5 | amip_obs_rf_ersstv5 | ERSST v5 | Obs | Obs | Obs |
AMIP with Observed Radiative Forcing/Hurrell SST | amip_obs_rf_hurrell | Hurrell SST | Obs | Obs | Obs |
AMIP with 1880s Radiative Forcing | amip_1880s_rf | Obs Detrended to 1880 | Present Climatology | Past Climatology | Past Climatology |
AMIP with Natural History Forcing | amip_nat_hist | CMIP5-est15 | CMIP5-est15 | Past Climatology | Past Climatology |
AMIP with Observed Radiative Forcing, Climatological Sea Ice and Polar SST | amip_clim_polar | Obs/Present Climatology | Present Climatology | Obs | Obs |
Large Ensemble | LENS | Coupled model | Coupled model | Obs/RCP8.5 | Obs |
2 Text for "experiment" global attribute in files
3 Experiment identifier in file and directory names
5 Method described in: A benchmark estimate of the effect of anthropogenic emissions on the ocean surface.
6 CESM Large Ensemble Project
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