ESMValTool
ESMValCore
This section shows example plots produced by ESMValTool. For more information, click on the footnote below the image.
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Landcover - Albedo
Land and ocean components of the global carbon cycle
Recipe for evaluating Arctic Ocean
Land-surface Permafrost - Autoassess diagnostics
Land-surface Soil Moisture - Autoassess diagnostics
Land-surface Surface Radiation - Autoassess diagnostics
Stratosphere - Autoassess diagnostics
Quantifying progress across different CMIP phases
Capacity factor of wind power: Ratio of average estimated power to theoretical maximum power
Turnover time of carbon over land ecosystems
Climate Change Hotspot
Climate model Weighting by Independence and Performance (ClimWIP)
Clouds
Evaluate water vapor short wave radiance absorption schemes of ESMs with the observations, including ESACCI data.
IPCC AR5 Chapter 12 (selected figures)
Combined Climate Extreme Index
Nino indices, North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Souther Oscillation Index (SOI)
Consecutive dry days
Emergent constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity from global temperature variability
Cloud Regime Error Metric (CREM)
Climate Variability Diagnostics Package (CVDP)
Evaluate water vapor short wave radiance absorption schemes of ESMs with the observations.
Diurnal temperature range
Eady growth rate
Equilibrium climate sensitivity
Emergent constraints for equilibrium climate sensitivity
Ensemble Clustering - a cluster analysis tool for climate model simulations (EnsClus)
ESA CCI LST comparison to Historical Models
Ocean chlorophyll in ESMs compared to ESA-CCI observations.
Example recipes
Extreme Events Indices (ETCCDI)
Diagnostics of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry
Ozone and associated climate impacts
IPCC AR5 Chapter 9 (selected figures)
Spatially resolved evaluation of ESMs with satellite column-averaged CO2
Heat wave and cold wave duration
Hydro forcing comparison
Hydroclimatic intensity and extremes (HyInt)
Quick insights for climate impact researchers
IPCC AR6 Chapter 3 (selected figures)
KNMI Climate Scenarios 2014
Landcover diagnostics
Constraining future Indian Summer Monsoon projections with the present-day precipitation over the tropical western Pacific
Drought characteristics following Martin (2018)
Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models
Blocking metrics and indices, teleconnections and weather regimes (MiLES)
Modes of variability
Monitor
Diagnostics of integrated atmospheric methane (XCH4)
Multi-model products
Ocean diagnostics
Performance metrics for essential climate parameters
Psyplot Diagnostics
Capacity factor for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems
Precipitation quantile bias
Radiation Budget
RainFARM stochastic downscaling
Runoff, Precipitation, Evapotranspiration
Ocean metrics
Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?
Constraining uncertainty in projected gross primary production (GPP) with machine learning
Sea Surface Salinity Evaluation
Sea Ice
Seaice drift
Seaice feedback
Shapeselect
Single Model Performance Index (SMPI)
Emergent constraint on snow-albedo effect
Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)
Transient Climate Response
Climate model projections from the ScenarioMIP of CMIP6
Thermodynamics of the Climate System - The Diagnostic Tool TheDiaTo v1.0
Toymodel
Zonal and Meridional Means
Multiple ensemble diagnostic regression (MDER) for constraining future austral jet position
Projected land photosynthesis constrained by changes in the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and annular modes indices (ZMNAM)
