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: Land-surface Permafrost - Autoassess diagnostics

5: Land-surface Soil Moisture - Autoassess diagnostics

6: Land-surface Surface Radiation - Autoassess diagnostics

7: Stratosphere - Autoassess diagnostics

8: Quantifying progress across different CMIP phases

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

10: Turnover time of carbon over land ecosystems

11: Climate model Weighting by Independence and Performance (ClimWIP)

12: Clouds

13: IPCC AR5 Chapter 12 (selected figures)

14: Combined Climate Extreme Index

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

16: Consecutive dry days

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

18: Cloud Regime Error Metric (CREM)

19: Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP)

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

21: Diurnal temperature range

22: Eady growth rate

23: Equilibrium climate sensitivity

24: Emergent constraints for equilibrium climate sensitivity

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

26: Example recipes

27: Extreme Events Indices (ETCCDI)

28: Diagnostics of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry

29: Ozone and associated climate impacts

30: IPCC AR5 Chapter 9 (selected figures)

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

32: Heat wave and cold wave duration

33: Hydro forcing comparison

34: Hydroclimatic intensity and extremes (HyInt)

35: Quick insights for climate impact researchers

36: KNMI Climate Scenarios 2014

37: Landcover diagnostics

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

39: Drought characteristics following Martin (2018)

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

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

42: Modes of variability

43: Multi-model products

44: Ocean diagnostics

45: Performance metrics for essential climate parameters

46: Capacity factor for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems

47: Precipitation quantile bias

48: RainFARM stochastic downscaling

49: Runoff, Precipitation, Evapotranspiration

50: Ocean metrics

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

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

53: Sea Ice

54: Seaice drift

55: Seaice feedback

56: Shapeselect

57: Single Model Performance Index (SMPI)

58: Emergent constraint on snow-albedo effect

59: Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)

60: Transient Climate Response

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

62: Toymodel

63: Zonal and Meridional Means

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

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

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