Classifications of winter atmospheric circulation patterns: Validation of CMIP5 GCMs over Europe and the North Atlantic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68378289:_____/19:00490873

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=0Le.1zV6tN" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=0Le.1zV6tN</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4344-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00382-018-4344-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Classifications of winter atmospheric circulation patterns: Validation of CMIP5 GCMs over Europe and the North Atlantic

Original language description

Winter atmospheric circulation over the Euro-Atlantic domain and three subdomains (British Isles, Central Europe, and Eastern Mediterranean) is validated in outputs of historical runs of 32 global climate models (GCMs) from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). Eight automated classifications of daily SLP patterns from five reanalysis datasets are produced for each domain in order to analyse the effect of the choices of methods and reference data on results. The results show that the ranking of GCMs fundamentally depends on which classification is used; therefore, only parallel usage of multiple classifications can provide robust rankings of models. Considering all eight classifications, three models (HadGEM2-CC, MIROC4h, and CNRM-CM5) are among the best in simulating the frequency of circulation types (CTs) over all four domains. Regardless the domain, the bias in CT frequency of the worst GCMs is larger than 50% of the frequency in the reference reanalysis dataset. Conversely, the best GCM for each domain differs from the reference reanalysis by about 10-20%, which is nearly the same result as found for the NOAA-CIRES Twentieth Century Reanalysis (version 2). The persistence of circulation is simulated better than the frequency with errors rarely exceeding 15%. The GCMs overestimate the frequency of westerly circulation over all domains (by about 7% over the British Isles, 21% over Central Europe, and almost 70% over the Eastern Mediterranean) and also cyclonic CTs, while easterly and anticyclonic CTs are typically underestimated by 30-40%.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Climate Dynamics

ISSN

0930-7575

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5-6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

3575-3598

UT code for WoS article

000463842700060

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85049564480