# Creation date: 2021-07-04
# File created by: Mathias Hauser
# email: mathias.hauser@env.ethz.ch
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# GENERAL INFORMATION
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# *Title
# Readme for data for Figure SPM.6 from the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).
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# *Data creators
# Name: Chao Li
# Institution: Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
# email: cli@geo.ecnu.edu.cn
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# Name: Mathias Hauser
# Institution: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
# email: mathias.hauser@env.ethz.ch
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# DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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# Panel a (Temperature)
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# filename: 'TXx_freq_change_10_year_event.csv’ [column 2 dark dots]
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# Based on: Li, Chao, Francis Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang, Guilong Li, Ying Sun, and Michael Wehner. "Changes in annual extremes of daily temperature and precipitation in CMIP6 models." Journal of Climate, 2021, 34(9), 3441-3460.
# comment: normalized w.r.t. 1850-1900
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# N° of columns: 6
# Column headings: warming_level, 50th, 17th, 83th, 5th, 95th
# Frequency change
# units: -
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# column_name 1: warming_level
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Global warming level
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# column_name 2: 50th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 50th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 3: 17th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 17th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 4: 83th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 83th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 5: 5th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 5th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 6: 95th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 95th percentile (multi model)
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# filename: 'TXx_intens_change_10_year_event.csv’ [column 2 dark bars, columns 5 and 6 light bars]
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# Based on: Li, Chao, Francis Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang, Guilong Li, Ying Sun, and Michael Wehner. "Changes in annual extremes of daily temperature and precipitation in CMIP6 models." Journal of Climate, 2021, 34(9), 3441-3460.
# comment: normalized w.r.t. 1850-1900
#
# N° of columns: 6
# Column headings: warming_level, 50th, 17th, 83th, 5th, 95th
# Intensity change
# units: Degrees C
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# column_name 1: warming_level
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Global warming level
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# column_name 2: 50th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 50th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 3: 17th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 17th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 4: 83th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 83th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 5: 5th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 5th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 6: 95th
# long name: annual maximum temperature (TXx)
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 95th percentile (multi model)
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# filename: 'TXx_freq_change_50_year_event.csv’
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# comment: as 'TXx_freq_change_10_year_event.csv’ but for 50 year event
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# filename: 'TXx_intens_change_50_year_event.csv’
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# comment: as 'TXx_intens_change_10_year_event.csv’ but for 50 year event
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# Panel b (Precipitation)
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# filename: 'Rx1day_freq_change_10_year_event.csv’ [column 2 dark dots]
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# Based on: Li, Chao, Francis Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang, Guilong Li, Ying Sun, and Michael Wehner. "Changes in annual extremes of daily temperature and precipitation in CMIP6 models." Journal of Climate, 2021, 34(9), 3441-3460.
# comment: normalized w.r.t. 1850-1900
#
# N° of columns: 6
# Column headings: warming_level, 50th, 17th, 83th, 5th, 95th
# Frequency change
# units: -
#
# column_name 1: warming_level
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Global warming level
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# column_name 2: 50th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 50th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 3: 17th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 17th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 4: 83th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 83th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 5: 5th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 5th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 6: 95th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 95th percentile (multi model)
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# filename: 'Rx1day_intens_change_10_year_event.csv’ [column 2 dark bars, columns 5 and 6 light bars]
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# N° of columns: 6
# Column headings: warming_level, 50th, 17th, 83th, 5th, 95th
# Intensity change
# units: %
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# column_name 1: warming_level
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Global warming level
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# column_name 2: 50th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: %
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 50th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 3: 17th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: %
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 17th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 4: 83th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: %
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 83th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 5: 5th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: %
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 5th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 6: 95th
# long name: Maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day)
# units: %
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 95th percentile (multi model)
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# Panel c (Drought)
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# filename: 'drought_freq_change_10_year_event.csv’ [column 2 dark dots]
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# Based on: Figure 11.18
# comment: normalized w.r.t. 1850-1900; The drought intensity shows "drying" while the data file shows the change in soil moisture (i.e. a negative soil moisture change corresponds to a positive drying signal).
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# N° of columns: 6
# Column headings: warming_level, 50th, 17th, 83th, 5th, 95th
# Frequency change
# units: -
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# column_name 1: warming_level
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Global warming level
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# column_name 2: 50th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 50th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 3: 17th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 17th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 4: 83th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 83th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 5: 5th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 5th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 6: 95th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: -
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Frequency change 10 year event - 95th percentile (multi model)
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# Intensity change
# units: standard deviation
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# filename: 'drought_freq_change_10_year_event.csv’ [column 2 dark dots]
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# N° of columns: 6
# Column headings: warming_level, 50th, 17th, 83th, 5th, 95th
# Intensity change
# units: standard deviation
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# column_name 1: warming_level
# units: Degrees C
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Global warming level
#
# column_name 2: 50th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: standard deviation
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 50th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 3: 17th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: standard deviation
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 17th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 4: 83th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: %
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 83th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 5: 5th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: standard deviation
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 5th percentile (multi model)
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# column_name 6: 95th
# long name: Drought index based on total column soil moisture
# units: standard deviation
# type (int/float/char): float
# comment: Intensity change 10 year event - 95th percentile (multi model)
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