Gallery¶

This section shows example plots produced by ESMValTool. For more information, click on the footnote below the image.

1: Landcover - Albedo

2: Land and ocean components of the global carbon cycle

3: Recipe for evaluating Arctic Ocean

4: Stratosphere - Autoassess diagnostics

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

6: Turnover time of carbon over land ecosystems

7: ClimWIP: independence & performance weighting

8: Clouds

9: IPCC AR5 Chapter 12 (selected figures)

10: Combined Climate Extreme Index

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

12: Consecutive dry days

13: Emergent constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity from global temperature variability

14: Cloud Regime Error Metric (CREM)

15: Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP)

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

17: Diurnal temperature range

18: Eady growth rate

19: Equilibrium climate sensitivity

20: Emergent constraints for equilibrium climate sensitivity

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

22: Example recipes

23: Extreme Events Indices (ETCCDI)

24: Diagnostics of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry

25: Ozone and associated climate impacts

26: IPCC AR5 Chapter 9 (selected figures)

27: Spatially resolved evaluation of ESMs with satellite column-averaged CO2

28: Heat wave and cold wave duration

29: Hydroclimatic intensity and extremes (HyInt)

30: KNMI Climate Scenarios 2014

31: Landcover diagnostics

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

33: Drought characteristics following Martin (2018)

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

35: Modes of variability

36: Multi-model products

37: Ocean diagnostics

38: Performance metrics for essential climate parameters

39: Precipitation quantile bias

40: RainFARM stochastic downscaling

41: Runoff, Precipitation, Evapotranspiration

42: Ocean metrics

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

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

45: Sea Ice

46: Seaice drift

47: Seaice feedback

48: Shapeselect

49: Single Model Performance Index (SMPI)

50: Emergent constraint on snow-albedo effect

51: Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)

52: Transient Climate Response

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

54: Toymodel

55: Zonal and Meridional Means

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

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

58: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and annular modes indices (ZMNAM)