Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

Earth system models: an overview

GM Flato - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Earth System models (ESMs) are global climate models with the added capability to
explicitly represent biogeochemical processes that interact with the physical climate and so …

[PDF][PDF] Climate models and their evaluation

DA Randall, RA Wood, S Bony, R Colman… - Climate change 2007 …, 2007 - pure.mpg.de
This chapter assesses the capacity of the global climate models used elsewhere in this
report for projecting future climate change. Confidence in model estimates of future climate …

Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

V Eyring, PM Cox, GM Flato, PJ Gleckler… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Earth system models are complex and represent a large number of processes, resulting in a
persistent spread across climate projections for a given future scenario. Owing to different …

The need to operationalize climate modelling

C Jakob, A Gettelman, A Pitman - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
The need to operationalize climate modelling | Nature Climate Change Skip to main content
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Evaluating the performance and utility of regional climate models: the PRUDENCE project

JH Christensen, TR Carter, M Rummukainen… - Climatic Change, 2007 - Springer
This special issue of Climatic Change contains a series of research articles documenting co-
ordinated work carried out within a 3-year European Union project 'P rediction of R egional …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti… - Climate change 2021 …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

M Eby, AJ Weaver, K Alexander, K Zickfeld… - Climate of the …, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
Both historical and idealized climate model experiments are performed with a variety of
Earth system models of intermediate complexity (EMICs) as part of a community contribution …

Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data

P Braconnot, SP Harrison, M Kageyama… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
There is large uncertainty about the magnitude of warming and how rainfall patterns will
change in response to any given scenario of future changes in atmospheric composition and …

Use of models in detection and attribution of climate change

G Hegerl, F Zwiers - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Most detection and attribution studies use climate models to determine both the expected
'fingerprint'of climate change and the uncertainty in the estimated magnitude of this …