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/ref

  • recipe_ref_cre.yml:

    Maps and zonal means of longwave and shortwave cloud radiative effect

Example plots:#

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

Fig. 7 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. 8 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).#