GISS ModelE2 Simulations with different land-surface conditions

<p>Dataset for&nbsp;JGR manuscript #2018JD028874 &quot;<strong>Distinct influences of land-cover and land-management on seasonal climate&quot;</strong></p> <p>This is a repository of climate simulations to examine the influence of agricultural expansion and intensification on climate.&nbsp;Climate model&nbsp;simulations are conducted&nbsp;with the ModelE tag modelE_AR5_v2_branch, which is an intermediate version of the GISS ModelE2. This model version&nbsp;is available in the&nbsp;GISS&nbsp;development repository (https://simplex.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=modelE.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/modelE_AR5_v2_branch). All the input files and simulation output are archived here.&nbsp;The&nbsp;simulations are run for 50 years with&nbsp;identical forcings under 3 scenarios&nbsp;and are run in non-interactive, prescribed ocean mode.</p> <p>Following is a description of the data available here.</p> <p>1. The folder input_files includes the land-surface schemes used in the simulations, and the crop cover dataset.</p> <p>2. &quot;PotVeg_VAr&quot; - contains variables from simulations with natural vegetation alone.</p> <p>3. &quot;CropA_Var_new&quot; - contains variables from simulations with year 2000 crop cover.</p> <p>4. &quot;CropsIRA_Var_new&quot; - contains variables from simulations with year 2000 crop cover and irrigation rates.</p> <p>5. &quot;evap_diags&quot; and &quot;low_clouds&quot; - contains evapotranspiration and low-cloud cloudiness from all three simulations.</p> <p>6. The file VarList - contains a list of variables available from the model and their names.</p> <p>7. Explanation_of_Diagnostics - contains a description of the variables.</p> <p>8. referenceRegions.csv - contains the domains of the SREX regions in this study.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>