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This section shows example plots produced by ESMValTool. For more information, click on the footnote below the image.

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Landcover - Albedo

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Land and ocean components of the global carbon cycle

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Recipe for evaluating Arctic Ocean

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Land-surface Permafrost - Autoassess diagnostics

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Land-surface Soil Moisture - Autoassess diagnostics

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Land-surface Surface Radiation - Autoassess diagnostics

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Stratosphere - Autoassess diagnostics

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Quantifying progress across different CMIP phases

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Capacity factor of wind power: Ratio of average estimated power to theoretical maximum power

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Turnover time of carbon over land ecosystems

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Climate model Weighting by Independence and Performance (ClimWIP)

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Clouds

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IPCC AR5 Chapter 12 (selected figures)

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Combined Climate Extreme Index

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Nino indices, North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Souther Oscillation Index (SOI)

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Consecutive dry days

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Emergent constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity from global temperature variability

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Cloud Regime Error Metric (CREM)

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Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP)

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Evaluate water vapor short wave radiance absorption schemes of ESMs with the observations.

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Diurnal temperature range

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Eady growth rate

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Equilibrium climate sensitivity

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Emergent constraints for equilibrium climate sensitivity

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Ensemble Clustering - a cluster analysis tool for climate model simulations (EnsClus)

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Example recipes

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Extreme Events Indices (ETCCDI)

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Diagnostics of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry

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Ozone and associated climate impacts

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IPCC AR5 Chapter 9 (selected figures)

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Spatially resolved evaluation of ESMs with satellite column-averaged CO2

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Heat wave and cold wave duration

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Hydro forcing comparison

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Hydroclimatic intensity and extremes (HyInt)

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Quick insights for climate impact researchers

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KNMI Climate Scenarios 2014

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Landcover diagnostics

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Constraining future Indian Summer Monsoon projections with the present-day precipitation over the tropical western Pacific

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Drought characteristics following Martin (2018)

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Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models

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Blocking metrics and indices, teleconnections and weather regimes (MiLES)

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Modes of variability

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Multi-model products

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Ocean diagnostics

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Performance metrics for essential climate parameters

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Capacity factor for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems

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Precipitation quantile bias

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RainFARM stochastic downscaling

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Runoff, Precipitation, Evapotranspiration

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Ocean metrics

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Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?

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Constraining uncertainty in projected gross primary production (GPP) with machine learning

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Sea Ice

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Seaice drift

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Seaice feedback

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Shapeselect

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Single Model Performance Index (SMPI)

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Emergent constraint on snow-albedo effect

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Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)

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Transient Climate Response

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Thermodynamics of the Climate System - The Diagnostic Tool TheDiaTo v1.0

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Toymodel

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Zonal and Meridional Means

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Multiple ensemble diagnostic regression (MDER) for constraining future austral jet position

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Projected land photosynthesis constrained by changes in the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2

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Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and annular modes indices (ZMNAM)