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. 2015 Sep 17;120(18):9043–9058. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022022

Table 1.

Details of the Solar Irradiance and Prescribed Ozone Fields Used in the Experiments Described in This Study

Experiment Solar Irradiance Prescribed Ozone
RCP8.5_ref Assumes a constant amplitude sinusoidal 11 year CMIP5‐recommended SPARC
solar cycle over the 21st century. Following CMIP5 ozone data set [Cionni et al., 2011]
recommendations, SSI is specified according to Wang et al. [2005]. with solar cycle regression term
included [see Osprey et al., 2013].
RCP8.5_solmin Same as in RCP8.5_ref but assumes a large (∼0.12%) Same as in RCP8.5_ref but
transient decrease in TSI over the 21st century which is solar cycle regression term altered
distributed across the model's six spectral bands. to be consistent with assumed
future TSI trend.