Ensemble mean of CMIP5 Sea Surface Temperature projections under climate change and their reference climatology

A software was developed in the framework of the GEOWOW project for computing the mean of the output of an ensemble of climate change models from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Coupled Model Intercomparaison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). The ensemble mean for the time projections of the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) under climate change and the corresponding climatology were computed: this paper describes the data set and its properties. The generated datasets are of interest for ecologists willing to assess future changes of marine ecosystems, and can be used under Creative Common Attributions license.