Climate Change Portal References

Climate Modeling


CMIP5 Project

  • IPCC, 2014: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-32.
  • Taylor, K.E., R.J. Stouffer, G.A. Meehl: 2012: An Overview of CMIP5 and the experiment design. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 485-498, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00094.1
  • van Vuuren, Detlef P., et al. 2011: The representative concentration pathways: an overview. Climate Change, 109, 1-2, pp. 5-31, doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0148-z
  • WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project – Phase 5: Special Issue of the CLIVAR Exchanges Newsletter, No. 56, Vol. 15, No. 2.
  • CMIP5 Modeling Centers and Models

Observed Datasets

  • A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, B. Rudolf, K. Schamm, U. Schneider, and M. Ziese 2013: A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901-present. In Earth System Science Data, 5(1) pp. 71-99, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-71-2013.
  • Rayner, N.A., P. Brohan, D.E. Parker, C.K. Folland, J.J. Kennedy, M. Vanicek, T.J. Ansell, and S.F. Tett (2006): Improved Analyses of Changes and Uncertainties in Sea Surface Temperature Measured In Situ since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The HadSST2 Dataset. J. Climate, 19, 446–469, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3637.1.
  • K. Matsuura and C. J. Willmott (2012): Terrestrial Air Temperature: 1900-2010 Gridded Monthly Time Series, v.3.01, Department of Geography, University of Delaware.

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