Gallery

This section shows example plots produced by ESMValTool. For more information, click on the footnote below the image. A website displaying results produced with the latest release of ESMValTool for all available recipes can be accessed here.

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[1]

Landcover - Albedo

[2]

Land and ocean components of the global carbon cycle

[3]

AOD AeroNET Assess

[4]

Recipe for evaluating Arctic Ocean

[5]

Land-surface Permafrost - Autoassess diagnostics

[6]

Land-surface Soil Moisture - Autoassess diagnostics

[7]

Land-surface Surface Radiation - Autoassess diagnostics

[8]

Stratosphere - Autoassess diagnostics

[9]

Quantifying progress across different CMIP phases

[10]

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

[11]

Turnover time of carbon over land ecosystems

[12]

Climate Change Hotspot

[13]

Generating Climate Patterns from CMIP6 Models

[14]

Climate model Weighting by Independence and Performance (ClimWIP)

[15]

Clouds

[16]

Evaluate water vapor short wave radiance absorption schemes of ESMs with the observations, including ESACCI data.

[17]

IPCC AR5 Chapter 12 (selected figures)

[18]

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

[19]

Consecutive dry days

[20]

Emergent constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity from global temperature variability

[21]

Cloud Regime Error Metric (CREM)

[22]

Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP)

[23]

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

[24]

Diurnal temperature range

[25]

Eady growth rate

[26]

Equilibrium climate sensitivity

[27]

Emergent constraints for equilibrium climate sensitivity

[28]

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

[29]

ESA CCI LST comparison to Historical Models

[30]

Ocean chlorophyll in ESMs compared to ESA-CCI observations.

[31]

Example recipes

[32]

Extreme Events Indices (ETCCDI)

[33]

Combined Climate Extreme Index

[34]

Diagnostics of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry

[35]

Ozone and associated climate impacts

[36]

Timeseries for Arctic-Midlatitude Teleconnections

[37]

Spatially resolved evaluation of ESMs with satellite column-averaged CO2

[38]

Heat wave and cold wave duration

[39]

Hydro forcing comparison

[40]

Hydroclimatic intensity and extremes (HyInt)

[41]

Implied heat transport from Top of Atmosphere fluxes

[42]

Quick insights for climate impact researchers

[43]

IPCC AR5 Chapter 9 (selected figures)

[44]

IPCC AR6 Chapter 3 (selected figures)

[45]

KNMI Climate Scenarios 2014

[46]

Landcover diagnostics

[47]

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

[48]

Drought characteristics following Martin (2018)

[49]

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

[50]

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

[51]

General model evaluation

[52]

Modes of variability

[53]

Monitor

[54]

Diagnostics of integrated atmospheric methane (XCH4)

[55]

Multi-model products

[56]

Ocean diagnostics

[57]

Performance metrics for essential climate parameters

[58]

Psyplot Diagnostics

[59]

Capacity factor for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems

[60]

Precipitation quantile bias

[61]

Radiation Budget

[62]

RainFARM stochastic downscaling

[63]

Runoff, Precipitation, Evapotranspiration

[64]

Ocean metrics

[65]

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

[66]

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

[67]

Sea Surface Salinity Evaluation

[68]

Seaborn Diagnostics

[69]

Sea Ice

[70]

Seaice drift

[71]

Seaice feedback

[72]

Shapeselect

[73]

Single Model Performance Index (SMPI)

[74]

Emergent constraint on snow-albedo effect

[75]

Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)

[76]

Transient Climate Response

[77]

Climate model projections from the ScenarioMIP of CMIP6

[78]

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

[79]

Toymodel

[80]

Zonal and Meridional Means

[81]

Emergent constraints on carbon cycle feedbacks

[82]

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

[83]

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

[84]

Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and annular modes indices (ZMNAM)