Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2379-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2379-2017
Methods for assessment of models
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28 Jun 2017
Methods for assessment of models |  | 28 Jun 2017

Skill and independence weighting for multi-model assessments

Benjamin M. Sanderson, Michael Wehner, and Reto Knutti

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CMIP5 data Earth System Grid http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/data_portal.html

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How should climate model simulations be combined to produce an overall assessment that reflects both their performance and their interdependencies? This paper presents a strategy for weighting climate model output such that models that are replicated or models that perform poorly in a chosen set of metrics are appropriately weighted. We perform sensitivity tests to show how the method results depend on variables and parameter values.