Journal article
Assessment of the CMIP5 global climate model simulations of the western tropical Pacific climate system and comparison to CMIP3
MR Grose, JN Brown, S Narsey, JR Brown, BF Murphy, C Langlais, AS Gupta, AF Moise, DB Irving
International Journal of Climatology | WILEY | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3916
Abstract
A set of 27 global climate models from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) ensemble are assessed for their performance for the purpose of making future climate projection studies in the western tropical Pacific and differences to Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3) are assessed. The CMIP5 models show some improvements upon CMIP3 in the simulation of the climate in the western tropical Pacific in the late 20th century. There are fewer CMIP5 models with very poor skill scores than in CMIP3 for some measures and a small group of the well-performing models in CMIP5 have lower biases than in an equivalent group from CMIP3. These best-performing models cou..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the two internal reviewers for helpful suggestions and feedback. This research was conducted with the support of the Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning Program funded by AusAID in collaboration with the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, and delivered by the Bureau of Meteorology and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). We thank the PCMDI and the World Climate Research Program's Working Group on Coupled Modelling for their roles in making available the CMIP3 and CMIP5 multi-model datasets. Support of this dataset is provided by the Office of Science, US Department of Energy. More details on model documentation are available at the PCMDI website (www.pcmdi.llnl.gov).