Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP

Eyring, Veronika; Gleckler, Peter J.; Heinze, Christoph; Stouffer, Ronald J.; Taylor, Karl E.; Balaji, V.; Guilyardi, Eric; Joussaume, Sylvie; Kindermann, Stephan; Lawrence, Bryan N.; Meehl, Gerald A.; Righi, Mattia; Williams, Dean N.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-813-2016

Articles | Volume 7, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-813-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-813-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 4

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Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP

Veronika Eyring, Peter J. Gleckler, Christoph Heinze, Ronald J. Stouffer, Karl E. Taylor, V. Balaji, Eric Guilyardi, Sylvie Joussaume, Stephan Kindermann, Bryan N. Lawrence, Gerald A. Meehl, Mattia Righi, and Dean N. Williams

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RC1: 'Review "Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP"', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Jun 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Veronika Eyring, 15 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Review of ‘Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP’', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Veronika Eyring, 15 Sep 2016
RC3: 'Review of Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP', Anonymous Referee #3, 17 Aug 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3', Veronika Eyring, 15 Sep 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (15 Sep 2016) by Ben Kravitz

AR by Veronika Eyring on behalf of the Authors (04 Oct 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Oct 2016) by Ben Kravitz

Short summary

We argue that the CMIP community has reached a critical juncture at which many baseline aspects of model evaluation need to be performed much more efficiently to enable a systematic and rapid performance assessment of the large number of models participating in CMIP, and we announce our intention to implement such a system for CMIP6. At the same time, continuous scientific research is required to develop innovative metrics and diagnostics that help narrowing the spread in climate projections.