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Total Area [1e6 km2]
Overlap Continuous Area [1e6 km2]
Overlap Discontinuous Area [1e6 km2]
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Benchmark [-] 19.9
CanESM5 [-] 4.78 2.20 0.551 8.84 3.90 2.14 0.199 0.124 0.460 0.317
E3SMv3 default [-] 13.2 9.21 1.45 1.83 3.00 2.65 0.835 0.325 0.699 0.682
E3SMv3 highECS [-] 10.7 7.62 0.990 3.42 3.45 2.20 0.690 0.223 0.713 0.624
E3SMv3 lowECS [-] 12.8 8.88 1.45 2.16 3.00 2.58 0.805 0.325 0.695 0.670
IPSL-CM6A-LR [-] 4.56 1.76 1.00 9.27 3.45 1.86 0.160 0.225 0.387 0.284
MIROC-ES2L [-] 17.0 9.83 2.05 1.20 2.40 5.22 0.891 0.462 0.579 0.663
NorESM2-LM [-] 14.3 8.98 1.71 2.06 2.74 3.76 0.813 0.384 0.626 0.648
UKESM1-0-LL [-] 15.4 9.82 2.65 1.21 1.80 3.03 0.890 0.595 0.639 0.715

Temporally integrated period mean

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Data Information

  Title:
Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground-Ice Conditions

  Version:
2

  Institutions:
National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

  Source:
Shapefiles obtained by: wget --ftp-user=anonymous -r -nd ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/fgdc/ggd318_map_circumarctic/permaice*

  History:
Tue Oct 21 15:17:27 2025: ncatted -a units,permafrost_extent,c,c,1 /home/nate/.cache/ilamb3/0.1/permafrost/Brown2002/Brown2002.nc Tue Oct 21 15:13:32 2025: ncatted -a units,permafrost_extent,m,c,1 /home/nate/.cache/ilamb3/0.1/permafrost/Brown2002/Brown2002.nc Downloaded on 2023-07-25 and generated netCDF file on 2023-08-15 with https://github.com/rubisco-sfa/ILAMB-Data/blob/master/permafrost/Brown2002/convert.py

  References:
Brown, J., O. Ferrians, J. A. Heginbottom, and E. Melnikov (2002), National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, 10.7265/skbgkf16

  Nco:
netCDF Operators version 5.3.3 (Homepage = http://nco.sf.net, Code = http://github.com/nco/nco, Citation = 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.03.004)