Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1169-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1169-2025
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

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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.
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