Freshwater resources under success and failure of the Paris climate agreement

This dataset represents the core output of the analysis presented in: Heinke, J., Müller, C., Lannerstad, M., Gerten, D., and Lucht, W.: Freshwater resources under success and failure of the Paris climate agreement, Earth Syst. Dynam., 10, 205-217, 10.5194/esd-10-205-2019, 2019. Please refer to this publication for a comprehensive description of methods and references to the datasets and materials used to produce this data.

When using the data, cite it as follows: Heinke, Jens, Müller, Christoph, Lannerstad, Mats, Gerten, Dieter, & Lucht, Wolfgang (2019). Freshwater resources under success and failure of the Paris climate agreement [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2562056. Please also cite the reference article that this dataset belongs to.

Files:

• frac_drought_19gcm_8gmt.nc contains the fraction of drought months for 19 GCM patterns and 8 levels of global mean temperature increase
• frac_drought_ref.nc contains the fraction of drought months for the reference case (equivalent to global mean temperature increase in 2009)
• mean_annual_discharge_19gcm_8gmt.nc contains mean annual discharge for 19 GCM patterns and 8 levels of global mean temperature increase
• mean_annual_discharge_ref.nc contains mean annual discharge for the reference case (equivalent to global mean temperature increase in 2009)
• q10_19gcm_8gmt.nc contains 5-day average peak flow exceeded in 1 of 10 years for 19 GCM patterns and 8 levels of global mean temperature increase
• q10_ref.nc contains 5-day average peak flow exceeded in 1 of 10 years for the reference case (equivalent to global mean temperature increase in 2009)
• water_crowding_1950-2010.nc contains estimates of grid-based water crowding for the historic period (1950-2010)
• water_crowding_2011-2100_5ssp.nc contains estimates of grid-based water crowding for the scenario period (2011-2100) for 5 different SSPs.

All data have a spatial resolution of 0.5° x 0.5° and cover the global land area except Antarctica.