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DOI10.5194/gmd-15-1375-2022
A circulation-based performance atlas of the CMIP5 and 6 models for regional climate studies in the Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitudes
Brands, Swen
通讯作者Brands, S (corresponding author),Consellerla Medio Ambiente Terr & Vivienda Xunta, MeteoGalicia, Santiago De Compostela, Spain. ; Brands, S (corresponding author),Tragsatec, Santiago De Compostela, Spain.
来源期刊GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
ISSN1991-959X
EISSN1991-9603
出版年2022
卷号15期号:4页码:1375-1411
英文摘要Global climate models are a keystone of modern climate research. In most applications relevant for decision making, they are assumed to provide a plausible range of possible future climate states. However, these models have not been originally developed to reproduce the regional-scale climate, which is where information is needed in practice. To overcome this dilemma, two general efforts have been made since their introduction in the late 1960s. First, the models themselves have been steadily improved in terms of physical and chemical processes, parametrization schemes, resolution and implemented climate system components, giving rise to the term Earth system model. Second, the global models' output has been refined at the regional scale using limited area models or statistical methods in what is known as dynamical or statistical downscaling. For both approaches, however, it is difficult to correct errors resulting from a wrong representation of the large-scale circulation in the global model. Dynamical downscaling also has a high computational demand and thus cannot be applied to all available global models in practice. On this background, there is an ongoing debate in the downscaling community on whether to thrive away from the model democracy paradigm towards a careful selection strategy based on the global models' capacity to reproduce key aspects of the observed climate. The present study attempts to be useful for such a selection by providing a performance assessment of the historical global model experiments from CMIP5 and 6 based on recurring regional atmospheric circulation patterns, as defined by the Jenkinson-Collison approach. The latest model generation (CMIP6) is found to perform better on average, which can be partly explained by a moderately strong statistical relationship between performance and horizontal resolution in the atmosphere. A few models rank favourably over almost the entire Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitudes. Internal model variability only has a small influence on the model ranks. Reanalysis uncertainty is an issue in Greenland and the surrounding seas, the southwestern United States and the Gobi Desert but is otherwise generally negligible. Along the study, the prescribed and interactively simulated climate system components are identified for each applied coupled model configuration and a simple codification system is introduced to describe model complexity in this sense.
类型Article
语种英语
开放获取类型gold, Green Submitted
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000760274900001
WOS关键词EARTH SYSTEM MODEL ; CHANGE PROJECTIONS ; COUPLED MODEL ; WEATHER TYPES ; BASIC EVALUATION ; VERSION ; PRECIPITATION ; OCEAN ; CLASSIFICATION ; VARIABILITY
WOS类目Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向Geology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/376280
作者单位[Brands, Swen] Consellerla Medio Ambiente Terr & Vivienda Xunta, MeteoGalicia, Santiago De Compostela, Spain; [Brands, Swen] Tragsatec, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
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Brands, Swen. A circulation-based performance atlas of the CMIP5 and 6 models for regional climate studies in the Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitudes[J],2022,15(4):1375-1411.
APA Brands, Swen.(2022).A circulation-based performance atlas of the CMIP5 and 6 models for regional climate studies in the Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitudes.GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT,15(4),1375-1411.
MLA Brands, Swen."A circulation-based performance atlas of the CMIP5 and 6 models for regional climate studies in the Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitudes".GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT 15.4(2022):1375-1411.
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