@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ There are dedicated pre-industrial control files for aerosol optical properties.
9090For aerosol optical properties, these are provided as climatologies
9191and hence have ` monC ` in their name
9292(they also have a time axis with only twelve points, so they're hard to miss).
93+ (Note that these files were calculated slightly differently to how it was done in CMIP6,
94+ see [ data differences from CMIP6 below] ( #data ) ).
9395There is no recommendation for teams who want to run pre-industrial control
9496with volcanic emissions as yet, that is still being developed
9597in collaboration with early testing teams who are interested in this application.
@@ -150,6 +152,15 @@ We do not have a direct mapping/translation guide at this stage
150152
151153### Data
152154
155+ The CMIP7 climatology files for extinction, single scattering albedo and asymetry
156+ were all calculated by using a standard average over time.
157+ This is different from CMIP6
158+ where the climatology for single scattering albedo and assymetry were calculated as weighted averages
159+ (the weights for single scattering albedo being the extinction;
160+ the weights for assymetry being the product of extinction and single scattering albedo).
161+ For consistency and because of the small impact,
162+ we recommend using the climatology files as given without the weighted average.
163+
153164For a full dive into the changes from CMIP6, see
154165the GMD pre-prints documenting the stratospheric
155166[ aerosol optical property] ( https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-4990/ )
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