Chapter 5 Preparing Climatologies

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For all data sources the reference period for the climatologies was 1985-2014. This period was chosen because it is the last 30-year period available in the CMIP6 historical period of 1950-2014.

5.1 Climatology Preparation

The Daily Climatology for OISSTv2 data was performed separately as part of the OISST Mainstays Workflow using the 1985-2014 reference period. This was then converted to a monthly climatology as part of the processing for bias-correction.

SODA monthly climatologies were done for bottom temperature, bottom salinity, surface temperature, and surface salinity in the python3 script: soda climatologies.

All CMIP6 climatologies were done using historical model runs, using the same reference period of 1985-2014. These were done for each variable as part of the two rmarkdown workflows: OISSTv2 Bias Corrections & SODA Bias Corrections