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.