# Creation date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2021-07-18 
# File created by: Izidine Pinto
# email: izidinep@gmail.com
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# GENERAL INFORMATION 
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# *Title 
# Readme for data for Figure SPM9 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: Erika Coppola, 
# Institution: Earth System Physics Section
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera 11
34100 Trieste, ITALY
# email: coppolae@ictp.it
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# *Comments
#  Number of land & coastal regions and open-ocean regions where each Climatic Impact-Drivers (CID) is projected to increase or decrease with high confidence or medium confidence. Changes refer to a 20–30 year period centred around 2050 and/or consistent with 2°C global warming compared to a similar period within 1960-2014, except for hydrological drought and agricultural and ecological drought which is compared to 1850-1900. 
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# DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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# List of all files and subfolders
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# filename 1: ‘consolidated_data_figure_SPM.9.csv’ 
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# Panel a
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# Shows the 30 CIDs relevant to the land and coastal regions
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# N° of columns: 4
# Column heading: Heat and Cold
# Column sub-headings:Mean surface temperature; Extreme heat; Cold spell; Frost

# N° of columns: 8
# Column heading: Wet and Dry
# Column sub-headings:Mean precipitation; River flood; Heavy precipitation and pluvial flood; Landslide; Aridity; Hydrological drought; Agricultural and ecological drought; Fire weather; 

# N° of columns: 4
# Column heading: Wind
# Column sub-headings:Mean wind speed; Severe wind storm; Tropical cyclone; Sand and dust storm; 

# N° of columns: 6
# Column heading: Snow and Ice
# Column sub-headings: Snow, glacier and ice sheet; Permafrost; Lake, river and sea ice; Heavy snowfall and ice storm; Hail; Snow avalanche

# N° of columns: 3
# Column heading: Other 
# Column sub-headings: Air pollution weather; Atmospheric CO2 at surface; Radiation at surface;

# N° of columns: 5
# Column heading: Coastal
# Column sub-headings: Relative sea level; Coastal flood; Coastal erosion; Marine heatwave; Ocean acidity

# N° of rows: 5
# Row headings:  high confidence increase; medium confidence increase; medium confidence decrease; high confidence decrease; Number of relevant regions
# comments: row 1 to 4 represent the confidence language on the direction of change, row 5 represents the maximum number of regions for which each
CID is relevant.
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# units: count
# type (int/float/char): int

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# Panel b
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# Shows the 5 CIDs relevant to the open ocean regions
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# N° of columns: 5
# Column heading: Open Ocean
# Column sub-headings:Mean ocean temperature; Marine heatwave; Ocean acidity; Ocean salinity; Dissolved oxygen
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# N° of rows: 5
# Row headings:  high confidence increase; medium confidence increase; medium confidence decrease; high confidence decrease; Number of relevant regions
# comments: row 1 to 4 represent the confidence language on the direction of change, row 5 represents the maximum number of regions for which each
CID is relevant.
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# units: count
# type (int/float/char): int
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