Growing Season Changes during 150 Tg Soot Injection.
Upon closer inspection, the control run files I was using did not actually contain the minimum temperature. The 'TSMN' variable was just the surface temperature. I decided to instead use the new control run that Chuck ran (nw_cntrl_03), and when used as a baseline compared to the old KPG control run, they are nearly identical. The new control run runs warmer by 0.1C, on average, globally. In the end, I don't think they are too far off to forego creating these growing season maps. Here are the control growing season maps for each season:


where the growing season length is defined as the longest period of time between days where the minimum temperature dropped below freezing. For the northern hemisphere, the period of time was January 1st to December 31st, and for the southern hemisphere it was June 1st to May 31st of the following year, so that the growing season was in the middle of the time periods selected.



To replicate this figure from the 2007 paper, I take the anomaly of the 150 Tg growing season with respect to the control. For reference, was this:



Year 0 growing season: injection at the beginning of time period analyzed for northern hemisphere, injection at the start of time analyzed for southern hemisphere.
Year 1 growing season
Year 2 growing season
Year 3 growing season
Year 4 growing season
Year 5 growing season