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]

Model Benchmarking

[10]

Quantifying progress across different CMIP phases

[11]

Cloud properties and their projected changes in CMIP models with low to high climate sensitivity

[12]

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

[13]

Turnover time of carbon over land ecosystems

[14]

Climate Change Hotspot

[15]

Generating Climate Patterns from CMIP6 Models

[16]

Climate model Weighting by Independence and Performance (ClimWIP)

[17]

Clouds

[18]

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

[19]

IPCC AR5 Chapter 12 (selected figures)

[20]

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

[21]

Consecutive dry days

[22]

Emergent constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity from global temperature variability

[23]

Cloud Regime Error Metric (CREM)

[24]

Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP)

[25]

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

[26]

Diurnal temperature range

[27]

Eady growth rate

[28]

Equilibrium climate sensitivity

[29]

Emergent constraints for equilibrium climate sensitivity

[30]

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

[31]

ESA CCI LST comparison to Historical Models

[32]

Ocean chlorophyll in ESMs compared to ESA-CCI observations.

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Example recipes

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Extreme Events Indices (ETCCDI)

[35]

Combined Climate Extreme Index

[36]

Diagnostics of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry

[37]

Ozone and associated climate impacts

[38]

Timeseries for Arctic-Midlatitude Teleconnections

[39]

Spatially resolved evaluation of ESMs with satellite column-averaged CO2

[40]

Heat wave and cold wave duration

[41]

Hydro forcing comparison

[42]

Hydroclimatic intensity and extremes (HyInt)

[43]

Implied heat transport from Top of Atmosphere fluxes

[44]

Quick insights for climate impact researchers

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IPCC AR5 Chapter 9 (selected figures)

[46]

IPCC AR6 Chapter 3 (selected figures)

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KNMI Climate Scenarios 2014

[48]

Landcover diagnostics

[49]

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

[50]

Drought characteristics following Martin (2018)

[51]

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

[52]

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

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General model evaluation

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Modes of variability

[55]

Monitor

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Diagnostics of integrated atmospheric methane (XCH4)

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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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Portrait plot

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Psyplot Diagnostics

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Capacity factor for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems

[63]

Precipitation quantile bias

[64]

Radiation Budget

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RainFARM stochastic downscaling

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CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF)

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Runoff, Precipitation, Evapotranspiration

[68]

Ocean metrics

[69]

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

[70]

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

[71]

Sea Surface Salinity Evaluation

[72]

Seaborn Diagnostics

[73]

Sea Ice

[74]

Seaice drift

[75]

Seaice feedback

[76]

Shapeselect

[77]

Single Model Performance Index (SMPI)

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Emergent constraint on snow-albedo effect

[79]

Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)

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Transient Climate Response

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Transient Climate Response to Cumulative CO2 Emissions (TCRE)

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Climate model projections from the ScenarioMIP of CMIP6

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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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Emergent constraints on carbon cycle feedbacks

[87]

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

[88]

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

[89]

Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and annular modes indices (ZMNAM)