============================================= Idealized Model Runs Siegfried Schubert April 15, 2007 ============================================= The experiments and background information are contained in the file SST_experiments.pdf. All the SST forcing anomaly patterns and the monthly climatology (SST and sea ice fractions) are in NetCDF format. All the SST anomaly files have already been given the correct amplitude, so these just need to be added to/subtracted from the climatology. The files for the various experiments consist of: 1) The monthly climatology (based on 1902-1999): monthly_climatology_sst_ice.nc 2) The three main anomaly forcing patterns for the Pacific, Atlantic and Trend (rotated EOFs based on 1901-2004): (see slide 3 in the SST_experiments.pdf for the description of the experiments - HIGHEST PRIORITY) Pacific_SST.nc N_atl_SST.nc Trend_SST.nc 3) The tropical-only part of the above Pacific and Atlantic patterns (see slide 4 in the SST_experiments.pdf for the description of the experiments) Tropical_N_atl_SST.nc Tropical_Pacific_SST.nc 4) The ENSO (residual) and low frequency Pacific patterns (as described in Appendix II of the SST_experiments.pdf) (see slide 4 in the SST_experiments.pdf for the description of the experiments) Residual_Pacific_SST.nc Lopass_Pacific_SST.nc 5) The soil moisture experiments are described in slide 4 of the SST_experiments.pdf. Regarding drought indices: it is important that you save the root zone moisture to allow calculating Randy's drought index (see output list on page 6 of the SST_experiments.pdf).