Bettina K. Gier

TL;DR: The authors discusses newly developed tools that facilitate a more rapid and comprehensive evaluation of model simulations with observations, process-based emergent constraints that are a promising way to focus evaluation on the observations most relevant to climate projections, and advanced methods for model weighting.

TL;DR: Large-scale diagnostics of the second major release of the ESMValTool tool, a community diagnostics and performance metrics tool designed to improve comprehensive and routine evaluation of Earth system models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), are described.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of satellite-derived growth rates with human CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and with El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) indices is made.

TL;DR: The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) as discussed by the authors is a community diagnostics and performance metrics tool for evaluation and analysis of Earth system models (ESMs) designed to facilitate a more comprehensive and rapid comparison of single or multiple models participating in the coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP).

TL;DR: The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 as discussed by the authors was developed by a large community of scientists to facilitate the evaluation and comparison of Earth system models which are participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP).