Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2309-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2309-2022
Methods for assessment of models
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17 Mar 2022
Methods for assessment of models |  | 17 Mar 2022

Earth system model parameter adjustment using a Green's functions approach

Ehud Strobach, Andrea Molod, Donifan Barahona, Atanas Trayanov, Dimitris Menemenlis, and Gael Forget

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The Green's functions methodology offers a systematic, easy-to-implement, computationally cheap, scalable, and extendable method to tune uncertain parameters in models accounting for the dependent response of the model to a change in various parameters. Herein, we successfully show for the first time that long-term errors in earth system models can be considerably reduced using Green's functions methodology. The method can be easily applied to any model containing uncertain parameters.
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