Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP)

Overview

The Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP) developed by NCAR’s Climate Analysis Section is an analysis tool that documents the major modes of climate variability in models and observations, including ENSO, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation, Northern and Southern Annular Modes, North Atlantic Oscillation, Pacific North and South American teleconnection patterns. For details please refer to the [1] and [2].

Available recipes and diagnostics

Recipes are stored in recipes/

  • recipe_cvdp.yml

Diagnostics are stored in diag_scripts/cvdp/

  • cvdp_wrapper.py

User settings in recipe

The recipe can be run with several data sets including different model ensembles, multi-model mean statistics are currently not supported.

Variables

  • ts (atmos, monthly mean, longitude latitude time)

  • tas (atmos, monthly mean, longitude latitude time)

  • pr (atmos, monthly mean, longitude latitude time)

  • psl (atmos, monthly mean, longitude latitude time)

Observations and reformat scripts

None.

Example plots

../_images/nam.prreg.ann.png

Fig. 135 Regression of the precipitation anomalies (PR) onto the Northern Annular Mode (NAM) index for the time period 1900-2005 for 30 CMIP5 models and observations (GPCP (pr) / IFS-Cy31r2 (psl); time period 1984-2005).