Monitoring and benchmarking Earth system  model simulations with ESMValTool v2.12.0

Lauer, Axel; Bock, Lisa; Hassler, Birgit; Jöckel, Patrick; Ruhe, Lukas; Schlund, Manuel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1169-2025

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1169-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1169-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

Methods for assessment of models

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27 Feb 2025

Methods for assessment of models |

| 27 Feb 2025

Monitoring and benchmarking Earth system model simulations with ESMValTool v2.12.0

Axel Lauer, Lisa Bock, Birgit Hassler, Patrick Jöckel, Lukas Ruhe, and Manuel Schlund

Data sets

Monitoring and benchmarking Earth system model simulations with ESMValTool v2.12.0 Patrick Jöckel et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11198444

Model code and software

ESMValTool: A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP Bouwe Andela et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3401363

ESMValCore: A community tool for pre-processing data from Earth system models in CMIP and running analysis scripts Bouwe Andela et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3387139

Short summary

Earth system models are important tools to improve our understanding of current climate and to project climate change. Thus, it is crucial to understand possible shortcomings in the models. New features of the ESMValTool software package allow one to compare and visualize a model's performance with respect to reproducing observations in the context of other climate models in an easy and user-friendly way. We aim to help model developers assess and monitor climate simulations more efficiently.