(From the CMIP5 DRS specification)
Appendix 1.2 Controlled Vocabulary for Abbreviated Forcing Descriptors
The abbreviations in this table can be used to describe the different externally imposed forcing agents that are active in a given simulation. A forcing agent will
show some secular variation due to prescribed changes in concentration or emissions (or in the case of land-use, and change in prescription of surface
conditions). Sometimes the change will be due to emissions of a precursor species that relatively quickly becomes transformed into the forcing agent itself (e.g.,
transformation of SO2 emissions to sulfate aerosols).
In CMIP5 output files these abbreviations are used in defining the global attribute named forcing.
Abbreviation | Forcing Description | Applicable to CCSM4 | Abbreviation | Forcing Description | Applicable to CCSM4 |
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Nat | natural forcing (a combination, not explicitly defined here, that might include, for example, solar and volcanic) | Y | Ant | anthropogenic forcing (a mixture, not explicitly defined here, that might include, for example, well-mixed greenhouse gases, aerosols, ozone, and land-use changes). | Y |
GHG | well-mixed greenhouse gases (a mixture, not explicitly defined here) | Y | SD | anthropogenic sulfate aerosol, accounting only for direct effects | Y |
SI | anthropogenic sulfate aerosol, accounting only for indirect effects | N | SA (= SD + SI) | anthropogenic sulfate aerosol direct and indirect effects | N |
TO | tropospheric ozone | N | SO | stratospheric ozone | N |
Oz (= TO + SO) | ozone (= tropospheric and stratospheric ozone) | Y | LU | land-use change | Y |
Sl | solar irradiance | Y | Vl | volcanic aerosol | Y |
SS | sea salt | Y | Ds | Dust | Y |
BC | black carbon | Y | OC | organic carbon | Y |
MD | mineral dust | Y | AA | anthropogenic aerosols (a mixture of aerosols, not explicitly defined here) | Y |
CMIP5 experiment_id | Description | RIP code rNNi1pNN |
piControl branch year | CMIP5 "forcings" attributes | |||||||||||||||
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Sl (solar) W m-2 |
GHG (well-mixed greenhouse gases) |
Vl (volcanic aerosols) |
SS (sea salt) |
Ds (dust) |
SD (sulfate direct effect) |
BC (black carbon) |
MD (mineral dust) |
OC (organic black carbon) |
Oz (ozone) |
LU (land use change) |
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CO2 ppm |
CH4 ppb |
N2O ppb |
F11 ppt |
F12 ppt |
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historical | all forcings active | r1i1p1 | 937 | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | |||||
r2i1p1 | 1031 | ||||||||||||||||||
r3i1p1 | 863 | ||||||||||||||||||
r4i1p1 | 893 | ||||||||||||||||||
r5i1p1 | 983 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p1 | 953 | ||||||||||||||||||
historicalNat | natural forcings only | r1i1p1 | 937 | varying | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | varying | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | |
r2i1p1 | 1031 | ||||||||||||||||||
r4i1p1 | 893 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p1 | 953 | ||||||||||||||||||
historicalGHG | GHG forcings only | r1i1p1 | 937 | 1360.895 | varying | none | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | |||||
r4i1p1 | 893 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p1 | 953 | ||||||||||||||||||
historicalMisc | anthropogenic aerosols only | r1i1p10 | 937 | 1360.895 | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | none | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | |
r4i1p10 | 893 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p10 | 953 | ||||||||||||||||||
historicalMisc | anthropogenic forcings only | r1i1p11 | 937 | 1360.895 | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | none | 1850 cycled | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | varying | |
r2i1p11 | 1031 | ||||||||||||||||||
r4i1p11 | 893 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p11 | 953 | ||||||||||||||||||
historicalMisc | black carbon only | r1i1p12 | 937 | 1360.895 | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | none | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | varying | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | |
historicalMisc | land-use change only | r1i1p13 | 937 | 1360.895 | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | none | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | varying | |
r3i1p13 | 863 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p13 | 953 | ||||||||||||||||||
historicalMisc | ozone forcing only | r1i1p14 | 937 | 1360.895 | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | none | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | varying | 1850 cycled | |
r4i1p14 | 893 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p14 | 953 | ||||||||||||||||||
historicalMisc | sulfate direct effect only | r1i1p15 | 937 | 1360.895 | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | none | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | varying | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | |
historicalMisc | solar forcing only | r1i1p16 | 937 | varying | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | none | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | |
r4i1p16 | 893 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p16 | 953 | ||||||||||||||||||
historicalMisc | volcanic forcing only | r1i1p17 | 937 | 1360.895 | 287.725 | 790.979 | 275.425 | 33.432 | 0.000 | varying | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | 1850 cycled | |
r4i1p17 | 893 | ||||||||||||||||||
r6i1p17 | 953 |