Asymmetries in the Southern Ocean contribution to global heat and carbon uptake

<p><span>Supporting data files in&nbsp;</span><span>Heat_Carbon_diag_CMIP6.tar.gz, NetCDF format </span><span>:</span></p> <p><span>(1) Carbon diagnostics</span></p> <p><span>Ocean carbon storage (Cstorage) and uptake (Cuptake) for each model</span></p> <p><span>time series of the global, north of 30N, south of 30S; four scenarios:</span></p> <p><span>historical, historical with GHG, historical with aerosols, SSP2-4.5</span></p> <p><span>Ocean_Cstorage_CMIP6_historical.nc</span></p> <p><span>Ocean_Cstorage_CMIP6_historical_greenhouse_gases.nc</span></p> <p><span>Ocean_Cstorage_CMIP6_historical_only_aerosols.nc</span></p> <p><span>Ocean_Cstorage_CMIP6_ssp245.nc</span></p> <p><span>Ocean_Cuptake_CMIP6_historical.nc</span></p> <p><span>Ocean_Cuptake_CMIP6_historical_greenhouse_gases.nc</span></p> <p><span>Ocean_Cuptake_CMIP6_historical_only_aerosols.nc</span></p> <p><span>Ocean_Cuptake_CMIP6_ssp245.nc</span></p> <p><span>Contributions of Southern Ocean (frac_SO) and northern ocean (frac_NO) </span></p> <p><span>carbon uptake to global carbon uptake, model mean and STD</span></p> <p><span>frac_Carb_hist-GHG.nc</span></p> <p><span>frac_Carb_historical.nc</span></p> <p><span>frac_Carb_ssp245.nc</span></p> <p><span>Carbon flux into the ocean, model mean and STD 2D fields for all 4 scenarios</span></p> <p><span>Carbon_flux_Figure3_UPD.nc&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span>(2) Heat diagnostics at the Top of the Atmosphere (TOA)</span></p> <p><span>TOA heat uptake (N) and radiative response (dR), 2D model mean and STD</span></p> <p><span>for all 4 scenarios; radiative forcing (F) from balance:<span>&nbsp; </span>N = F - dR</span></p> <p><span>N_dR_hist-GHG.nc</span></p> <p><span>N_dR_hist-aer.nc</span></p> <p><span>N_dR_historical.nc</span></p> <p><span>N_dR_ssp245.nc</span></p> <p><span>N_F_hist-GHG_std.nc</span></p> <p><span>N_F_hist-aer_std.nc</span></p> <p><span>N_F_historical_std.nc</span></p> <p><span>N_F_ssp245_std.nc</span></p> <p><span>(3) Ocean heat uptake diagnostics</span></p> <p><span>Ocean surface heat uptake (heat_flux), 2D fields for each model; all 4 scenarios</span></p> <p><span>Spatial_heat_content_and_flux_change_historical.nc</span></p> <p><span>Spatial_heat_mean_flux_change_hist_aer_and_hist_GHG.nc</span></p> <p><span>Spatial_heat_mean_flux_change_historical_and_ssp245_new_dates.nc</span></p> <p><span>Time series of ocean heat content anomaly (content_anom) and cumulative </span></p> <p><span>ocean surface heat flux (cumulative_flux) for each model;</span></p> <p><span>global, Southern Ocean (SO) and northern ocean (north); all 4 scenarios</span></p> <p><span>SO_north_and_global_allmodel_uptake_storage_and_transport_hist-GHG.nc</span></p> <p><span>SO_north_and_global_allmodel_uptake_storage_and_transport_hist-aer.nc</span></p> <p><span>SO_north_and_global_allmodel_uptake_storage_and_transport_historical.nc</span></p> <p><span>SO_north_and_global_allmodel_uptake_storage_and_transport_ssp245.nc</span></p> <p><span>Contributions of Southern Ocean (frac_SO) and northern ocean (frac_NO)</span></p> <p><span>heat uptake to global heat uptake, model mean and STD</span></p> <p><span>frac_OHU_hist-GHG.nc</span></p> <p><span>frac_OHU_historical.nc</span></p> <p><span>frac_OHU_ssp245.nc</span></p> <p><span>The diagnostics is based on the model outputs from the CMIP6 simulations, </span></p> <p><span>available from the Earth System Grid Federation at the CMIP6 archive </span></p> <p><span>https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/search/cmip6</span></p>