Evaluation of IPCC models' performance in simulating late-Twentieth-Century climatologies and weather patterns over North America

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 5257-5274

  Radić, Valentina ^a   Clarke, Garry K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANOMALY PATTERNS; CANADIAN CENTRE FOR CLIMATE MODELLING AND ANALYSIS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DOMAIN SIZE; EVALUATION MEASURES; EVALUATION METRICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL SKILL; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEAN MODEL; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; UNIFIED MODEL; VARIANCE RATIO; WEATHER PATTERNS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; SEA LEVEL; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80755182295     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00011.1     Document Type: Article

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