Measuring the IPCC AR6 Report: Establishing dimensions and quantities #23
Description
Measuring IPCC AR& Report: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), outputs and sources
NB: All figures are provisional scoping approximations (July 2025)
Main final report; AR6
Title
IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.
Citation
IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 35-115, doi: 10.59327/IPCC/AR6-9789291691647.
Crossref metadata lookup
https://search.crossref.org/search/works?q=10.59327%2FIPCC%2FAR6-9789291691647&from_ui=yes#
Metrics summary
Source speadsheet - Google Docs (Copy paste from GDocs will insert markdown tables.
Totals
| Page count | Word count | Citations | Data | Authors | Glossary terms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,047 | 8,047,000 | 48,400 | 66,834 | 421 | 800 |
Details
| Report | Page count | Word count | Citations | Data | Figures | Referenced sythesis reports | Contributors / Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 | 200 | 94,000 | Not used | Allocation to be confirmed | To be confirmed | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (WG1) | 2,409 | 1,925,000 | 18,000 | - | - | - | - |
| Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (WG2) | 3,080 | 2,513,000 | 17,419 | - | - | - | - |
| Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (WG3) | 2,053 | 1,642,000 | To be confirmed | - | - | - | 91 |
| Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5°C (2018) | 631 | 511,000 | 6,000 | - | - | - | - |
| Special Report: Climate Change and Land (2019) | 908 | 735,000 | To be confirmed | - | - | - | - |
| Special Report: The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (2019) | 766 | 627,000 | 6,981 | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 10,047 | 8,047,000 | 48,400 | 66,834 | To be confirmed | To be confirmed | 91 |
Status of acquisition and open licencing, digital archiving, compuational access
| Parts | Status | Licence | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | HTML scrape WIP | Open licenced except SYR | ||
| Figures | HTML scrape WIP | Open licenced except SYR | ||
| Citations | Available - To Do | Open licenced | ||
| Data | Not included in round one. Only to be included on further funding rounds. | Mainly Open licenced - TBC | ||
| Authors | Available - To Do | Copyright | ||
| Glossary | In Wikidata | Copyright | ||
| Acronymes | HTML scrape/ TDM - done | Open licenced | ||
| Translations | Not included in round one. Available - To Do | Unknown |
Main publications
The AR6 publication is made of seven main reports, see listed here on Zotero.
Other ancillary reports and translations exist. These are not included here. They will be added at a later date.
| Report | File name | File size in MB | Approx. Page count | Approx. Word count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 | IPCC_AR6_SYR_FullVolume.pdf | 4.9 | 186 + 14 pages | ~94.000 |
| Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (WG1) | IPCC_AR6_WGI_FullReport.pdf | 423.3 | 2409 pages | ~1.925.000 |
| Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (WG2) | IPCC_AR6_WGII_FullReport.pdf | 396 | 3068 + 12 pages | ~2.513.000 |
| Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (WG3) | IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FullReport.pdf | 68.8 | 2042 + 11 pages | ~1.642.000 |
| Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5°C (2018) | SR15_Full_Report_HR.pdf | 65 | 631 pages | ~511.000 |
| Special Report: Climate Change and Land (2019) | SRCCL_Full_Report.pdf | 44.9 | 908 pages | ~735.000 |
| Special Report: The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (2019) | SROCC_FullReport_FINAL.pdf | 51.9 | 766 pages | ~627.000 |
| Total | 1054.8 MB | 10047 pages | ~8.000.000 |
Ancillary reports and translations
These need to be counted. Landing pages will be supplied an team #semanticClimate requested to count. TDM will be needed.
Available translations
Source and list available translations
Reports: PDF Licences
- AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023: Copyright https://www.ipcc.ch/copyright/
- 3 Working Groups Reports: Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3 Special Reports: Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations
These need to be counted. Landing pages will be supplied an team #semanticClimate requested to count. TDM will be needed.
Lit review of existing citation numbers research will be supplied.
Special lists
These include: Glossaries, acronymes, indexes, etc.
- AR6 Glossary contains 800 terms
These need to be counted. Landing pages will be supplied an team #semanticClimate requested to count. TDM will be needed.
Contained sythesis reports (how many external systhesis reports are used)
These need to be counted. Landing pages will be supplied an team #semanticClimate requested to count. TDM will be needed.
Figures
These need to be counted. Landing pages will be supplied an team #semanticClimate requested to count. TDM will be needed.
Data
Source in from UN IPPC's data repository - https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/q?general_key_ss=IPCC-AR6
These need further division into related reports.
Deutsche Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) need to be consulted.
Persons / Contributors
These need to be counted. Landing pages will be supplied an team #semanticClimate requested to count. TDM will be needed.
Some exist but not in one place.
Complete IPCC bibliography of all reports since the 1980s and full-text TDM
These need to be counted. Landing pages will be supplied an team #semanticClimate requested to count. TDM will be needed.
Key LOD resurces: schemas, ontologies, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, authority records, and PIDs
These need to be indentified and sourced.
- SDG - Sustainable Development Goals
- ICH - Intangible Cultural Heritage
Qualifiers
Internal IPCC qualifiers. e.g., high confidence, low confidence. etc.; 1.5C.
Organogram
In paper from Raphael Slade, TSU AR6 WGIII
Key IPCC repositories and metadata sources
These need to be better identified
Identify related corpora
e.g.,
- UNFCCC
- USA Assement Report - NOAA, NASA