Project: IPCC Data Distribution Centre : Fourth Assessment Report data sets - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information, relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and option for adaption and migration. Projection of future trends for a number of key variables are provided through this section of the DDC (http://ipcc-data.org/sim/gcm_clim/SRES_AR4 ). The SRES scenarios have been constructed to explore future developments in the global enviromental with special reference to the production of greenhouse gases and aerosol precursor emission. A set of four scenario families (A1, A2, B1, B2) have been developed that each of this storylines describes one possible demographic, polito-economic, societal and technological future. Model experiments, also using different forcing scenarios, were calculated at other modeling centres. The data represent a subset of data sets from the IPCC Model Output Archive at PCMDI (https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip3/). _ These datasets are available in netCDF and GRIB format. The dataset names are composed of - centre/model acronym (e.g. MPEH5: Max-Planck-Institute/Echam5) - scenario acronym (e.g. SRB1: SRES B1) - run number (e.g. 1: run 1) - format identifier (e.g. N: netCDF, G: GRIB) - variable acronym [with level value] (e.g. hur850: relative humidity, 850 hPa) --> example: MPEH5_SRB1_1_G_hur850 Summary: These data represent monthly averaged values of selected variables for the Data Distribution Centre (DDC) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (see also http://www.ipcc-data.org/) The model output prepared for IPCC Fourth Assessment SRES B1 experiment. These datasets are available in netCDF and GRIB format. For this experiment there is only one run available. Includes indirect and direct sulphate aerosol effects from 2000. The N2O concentrations were calculated using a fixed lifetime. CH4 and H(C)FCs (HCFC22 HFC125 HFC134A) were calculated using the 2D atmospheric chemistry model and no climate change. Other H(C)FCs have forcings of O(0.01-0.1) W m-2 but we did not include them in other SRES scenarios either. CFCs (CFC11 CFC12 CFC113) were assumed to be the same as in SRES A2 because they are controlled by the Montreal Protocol so should be identical in all scenarios. Tropospheric ozone was calculated using STOCHEM with surface emissions of NOx etc from the SRES web site converted to 5x5 degrees and no climate change. Fields were calculated in single-year runs (with 3-month spinup) for 1990 2030 2060 2099. Stratospheric ozone was calculated using the same Cl and Br concentrations as in other SRES scenarios. For model output data in higher temporal resulution and more variables visit the web page https://esg.llnl.gov:8443/home/publicHomePage.do.