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

14: IPCC AR5 Chapter 12 (selected figures)

15: Combined Climate Extreme Index

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

17: Consecutive dry days

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

19: Cloud Regime Error Metric (CREM)

20: Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP)

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

22: Diurnal temperature range

23: Eady growth rate

24: Equilibrium climate sensitivity

25: Emergent constraints for equilibrium climate sensitivity

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

27: ESA CCI LST comparison to Historical Models

28: Ocean chlorophyll in ESMs compared to ESA-CCI observations.

29: Example recipes

30: Extreme Events Indices (ETCCDI)

31: Diagnostics of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry

32: Ozone and associated climate impacts

33: IPCC AR5 Chapter 9 (selected figures)

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

35: Heat wave and cold wave duration

36: Hydro forcing comparison

37: Hydroclimatic intensity and extremes (HyInt)

38: Quick insights for climate impact researchers

39: KNMI Climate Scenarios 2014

40: Landcover diagnostics

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

42: Drought characteristics following Martin (2018)

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

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

45: Modes of variability

46: Monitor

47: Diagnostics of integrated atmospheric methane (XCH4)

48: Multi-model products

49: Ocean diagnostics

50: Performance metrics for essential climate parameters

51: Capacity factor for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems

52: Precipitation quantile bias

53: Radiation Budget

54: RainFARM stochastic downscaling

55: Runoff, Precipitation, Evapotranspiration

56: Ocean metrics

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

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

59: Sea Surface Salinity Evaluation

60: Sea Ice

61: Seaice drift

62: Seaice feedback

63: Shapeselect

64: Single Model Performance Index (SMPI)

65: Emergent constraint on snow-albedo effect

66: Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)

67: Transient Climate Response

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

69: Toymodel

70: Zonal and Meridional Means

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

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

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