Figure 3: Maps of
target outputs from the SSP245 held-back test scenario at 2100 (as an
anomaly to the pre-industrial control run) performed by NorESM2: (a)
Annual mean surface temperature; (b) annual mean diurnal surface
temperature range; (c) annual mean precipitation; and (d) 90th
percentile of the daily precipitation.
Also included in the dataset are the top-of-atmosphere Effective
Radiative Forcings (ERFs) for this model for each forcing agent over the
historical period. These are based on diagnostics of the fixed
sea-surface temperature experiments of the Radiative Forcing Model
Intercomparison Project (RFMIP; Pincus et al., 2016; Smith et al., 2021)
and provide a more direct estimate of the radiative climate effect of
each forcer over this period than simply emissions. It also allows an
estimate of the efficacy of each forcer in this model (the temperature
response per unit of forcing). This might be useful for normalising the
inputs by their efficacy or developing more physically interpretable
emulators that derive the climate response via the forcing.