Submitted as: development and technical paper 01 Oct 2020
Submitted as: development and technical paper | 01 Oct 2020
A Markov chain method for weighting climate model ensembles
- 1School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney, Australia
- 2Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW Sydney, Australia
- 1School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney, Australia
- 2Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Abstract. Climate change is typically modelled using sophisticated mathematical models (Climate Models) of physical processes taking place over long periods of time. Multi-model ensembles of climate models show better correlation with the observations than any of the models separately. Currently, an open research question is how climate models can be combined to create an ensemble in an optimal way. We present a novel approach based on Markov chains to estimate model weights in order to obtain ensemble means. The method was compared to existing alternatives by measuring its performance on training and validation data. The Markov chain method showed improved performance over those methods when measured by the root mean squared error and the R-squared metrics. The results of this comparative analysis should serve to motivate further studies in Markov chain and other nonlinear methods application, that address the issues of finding optimal model weight for constructing ensemble means.
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RC1: 'Review of Kulinich et al', Ben Sanderson, 02 Nov 2020
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RC2: 'Reviewer Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Nov 2020
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AC1: 'Comment on gmd-2020-253', Max Kulinich, 14 Jan 2021
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