Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-829-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-829-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Methods for assessment of models
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22 Feb 2019
Methods for assessment of models |  | 22 Feb 2019

The Cloud_cci simulator v1.0 for the Cloud_cci climate data record and its application to a global and a regional climate model

Salomon Eliasson, Karl Göran Karlsson, Erik van Meijgaard, Jan Fokke Meirink, Martin Stengel, and Ulrika Willén

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To enable fair comparisons of clouds between climate models and the ESA Cloud_cci climate data record (CDR), we present a tool called the Cloud_cci simulator. The tool takes into account the geometry and cloud detection capabilities of the Cloud_cci CDR to allow fair comparisons. We demonstrate the simulator on two climate models. We find the impact of time sampling has a large effect on simulated cloud water amount and that the simulator reduces the cloud cover by about 10 % globally.
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