ESMValTool (v1.0) -- A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP
A community diagnostics and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth system models (ESMs) has been developed that allows for routine comparison of single or multiple models, either against predecessor versions or against observations. The priority of the effort so far has been to target...
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ftncar:oai:drupal-site.org:articles_18549 2023-09-05T13:23:30+02:00 ESMValTool (v1.0) -- A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP Eyring, Veronika (author) Righi, Mattia (author) Lauer, Axel (author) Evaldsson, Martin (author) Wenzel, Sabrina (author) Jones, Colin (author) Anav, Alessandro (author) Andrews, Oliver (author) Cionni, Irene (author) Davin, Edouard (author) Deser, Clara (author) Ehbrecht, Carsten (author) Friedlingstein, Pierre (author) Gleckler, Peter (author) Gottschaldt, Klaus-Dirk (author) Hagemann, Stefan (author) Juckes, Martin (author) Kindermann, Stephan (author) Krasting, John (author) Kunert, Dominik (author) Levine, Richard (author) Loew, Alexander (author) Mäkelä, Jarmo (author) Martin, Gill (author) Mason, Erik (author) Phillips, Adam (author) Read, Simon (author) Rio, Catherine (author) Roehrig, Romain (author) Senftleben, Daniel (author) Sterl, Andreas (author) van Ulft, Lambertus (author) Walton, Jeremy (author) Wang, Shiyu (author) Williams, Keith (author) 2016-05-10 application/pdf http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-023-000 https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1747-2016 en eng Copernicus Publications Geoscientific Model Development NCAR Command Language (NCL)--10.5065/D6WD3XH5 Olson's Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: An Updated Database Using the GLC2000 Land Cover Product (NDP-017b, a 2006 update of the original 1985 and 2001 data file))--10.3334/CDIAC/lue.ndp017.2006 ESMValTool--10.17874/ac8548f0315 articles:18549 ark:/85065/d7dn46pc http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-023-000 doi:10.5194/gmd-9-1747-2016 Copyright Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License Text article 2016 ftncar https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1747-2016 2023-08-14T18:43:23Z A community diagnostics and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth system models (ESMs) has been developed that allows for routine comparison of single or multiple models, either against predecessor versions or against observations. The priority of the effort so far has been to target specific scientific themes focusing on selected essential climate variables (ECVs), a range of known systematic biases common to ESMs, such as coupled tropical climate variability, monsoons, Southern Ocean processes, continental dry biases, and soil hydrology-climate interactions, as well as atmospheric CO2 budgets, tropospheric and stratospheric ozone, and tropospheric aerosols. The tool is being developed in such a way that additional analyses can easily be added. A set of standard namelists for each scientific topic reproduces specific sets of diagnostics or performance metrics that have demonstrated their importance in ESM evaluation in the peer-reviewed literature. The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a community effort open to both users and developers encouraging open exchange of diagnostic source code and evaluation results from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) ensemble. This will facilitate and improve ESM evaluation beyond the state-of-the-art and aims at supporting such activities within CMIP and at individual modelling centres. Ultimately, we envisage running the ESMValTool alongside the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) as part of a more routine evaluation of CMIP model simulations while utilizing observations available in standard formats (obs4MIPs) or provided by the user. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean OpenSky (NCAR/UCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Southern Ocean Geoscientific Model Development 9 5 1747 1802 |
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A community diagnostics and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth system models (ESMs) has been developed that allows for routine comparison of single or multiple models, either against predecessor versions or against observations. The priority of the effort so far has been to target specific scientific themes focusing on selected essential climate variables (ECVs), a range of known systematic biases common to ESMs, such as coupled tropical climate variability, monsoons, Southern Ocean processes, continental dry biases, and soil hydrology-climate interactions, as well as atmospheric CO2 budgets, tropospheric and stratospheric ozone, and tropospheric aerosols. The tool is being developed in such a way that additional analyses can easily be added. A set of standard namelists for each scientific topic reproduces specific sets of diagnostics or performance metrics that have demonstrated their importance in ESM evaluation in the peer-reviewed literature. The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a community effort open to both users and developers encouraging open exchange of diagnostic source code and evaluation results from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) ensemble. This will facilitate and improve ESM evaluation beyond the state-of-the-art and aims at supporting such activities within CMIP and at individual modelling centres. Ultimately, we envisage running the ESMValTool alongside the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) as part of a more routine evaluation of CMIP model simulations while utilizing observations available in standard formats (obs4MIPs) or provided by the user. |
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Eyring, Veronika (author) Righi, Mattia (author) Lauer, Axel (author) Evaldsson, Martin (author) Wenzel, Sabrina (author) Jones, Colin (author) Anav, Alessandro (author) Andrews, Oliver (author) Cionni, Irene (author) Davin, Edouard (author) Deser, Clara (author) Ehbrecht, Carsten (author) Friedlingstein, Pierre (author) Gleckler, Peter (author) Gottschaldt, Klaus-Dirk (author) Hagemann, Stefan (author) Juckes, Martin (author) Kindermann, Stephan (author) Krasting, John (author) Kunert, Dominik (author) Levine, Richard (author) Loew, Alexander (author) Mäkelä, Jarmo (author) Martin, Gill (author) Mason, Erik (author) Phillips, Adam (author) Read, Simon (author) Rio, Catherine (author) Roehrig, Romain (author) Senftleben, Daniel (author) Sterl, Andreas (author) van Ulft, Lambertus (author) Walton, Jeremy (author) Wang, Shiyu (author) Williams, Keith (author) |
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ESMValTool (v1.0) -- A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP |
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ESMValTool (v1.0) -- A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP |
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ESMValTool (v1.0) -- A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP |
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ESMValTool (v1.0) -- A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP |
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ESMValTool (v1.0) -- A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP |
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