Benchmarking CMIP5 models with a subset of ESA CCI Phase 2 data using the ESMValTool

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 203, Issue , 2017, Pages 9-39

  Lauer, Axel ^a   Eyring, Veronika ^a   Righi, Mattia ^a   Buchwitz, Michael ^b   Defourny, Pierre ^c   Evaldsson, Martin ^d   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^e   de Jeu, Richard ^f   de Leeuw, Gerrit ^g,h   Loew, Alexander ⁱ   Merchant, Christopher J ^j   Müller, Benjamin ⁱ   Popp, Thomas ^a   Reuter, Maximilian ^b   Sandven, Stein ^k   Senftleben, Daniel ^a   Stengel, Martin ^l   Van Roozendael, Michel ^m   Wenzel, Sabrina ^a   Willén, Ulrika ^d  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f Europ Space Agy Technol Center   (Netherlands)

^g FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^k NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^l DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^m BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Aerosols; Climate; Clouds; CMIP; CO2; Earth system models; ESA CCI; ESMValTool; Greenhouse gases; Land cover; Model evaluation; Ozone; Sea ice; Sea surface temperature; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; OZONE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SEA ICE; SOIL MOISTURE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE; CMIP; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; ESA CCI; ESMVALTOOL; LAND COVER; MODEL EVALUATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; BENCHMARKING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD; CMIP; DATA SET; GREENHOUSE GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; LAND COVER; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; OZONE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOFTWARE; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 85009801618     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.007     Document Type: Article

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