CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF)#

Overview#

Here ESMValTool recipes are collected which will be used in the CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF).

Available recipes#

Recipes are stored in recipes

  • recipe_ecs.yml: Calculate equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)

  • recipe_tcr.yml: Calculate transient climate response (TCR)

  • recipe_tcre.yml: Calculate transient climate response to cumulative CO2 emissions (TCRE)

  • ref/recipe_ref_cre.yml: Maps and zonal means of longwave and shortwave cloud radiative effect

  • ref/recipe_ref_scatterplot.yml: 2D histograms with focus on clouds

  • ref/recipe_ref_sea_ice_area_basic.yml: Seasonal cycle of Arctic (NH) and Antarctic (SH) sea ice area, time series of Arctic September (NH) and Antarctic February (SH) sea ice area

  • ref/recipe_ref_ozone.yml: NH/SH polar cap (60 degrees to 90 degrees) March/September total column ozone time series, zonal mean total column ozone vs. time map plot, zonal mean total column ozone vs. annual cycle map plot, altitude vs. zonal mean ozone profile climatology map plot

Example plots:#

../_images/map_lwcre_MPI-ESM1-2-LR_Amon.png

Fig. 34 Geographical map of the climatological mean longwave cloud radiative effect from MPI-ESM1-2-LR and CERES-EBAF Ed4.2 and their difference.#

../_images/variable_vs_lat_lwcre_ambiguous_dataset_Amon.png

Fig. 35 Zonal averages of the climatological mean longwave cloud radiative effect from CERES-EBAF Ed4.2 (solid black), ESACCI-CLOUD (dashed black), ISCCP-FH (dotted black) and the MPI-ESM1-2-LR model (blue).#

../_images/seaborn_jointplot.png

Fig. 36 2D histogram of total cloud fraction (ESACCI-CLOUD) and shortwave cloud radiative effect (CERES-EBAF) for the years 2001-2016 with 1D histograms attached.#

../_images/annual_cycle_sea_ice_area_nh_ambiguous_dataset_ambiguous_mip_historical_r1i1p1f1.png

Fig. 37 Average seasonal cycle of the Arctic (NH) sea ice area from MPI-ESM1-2-LR (red line) compared with OSISAF/CCI (blue line). Created with recipe_ref_sea_ice_area_basic.yml.#

../_images/timeseries_sea_ice_area_nh_sep_ambiguous_dataset_ambiguous_mip_historical_r1i1p1f1.png

Fig. 38 Time series of Arctic (NH) September (NH) sea ice area from MPI-ESM1-2-LR (red line) compared with OSISAF/CCI (blue line). Created with recipe_ref_sea_ice_area_basic.yml.#

../_images/zonal_mean_profile_o3_CNRM-ESM2-1_historical.png

Fig. 39 Zonal mean vertically resolved ozone climatology from CNRM-ESM2-1 compared with ESACCI-OZONE for the years 1990 to 2000. Created with recipe_ref_ozone.yml.#