North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
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  NARCCAP Experiment
NARCCAP Experiment 0
    - Validation Data
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    - Time Series: PCP
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    - Taylor Diagrams: PCP
    - Taylor Diagrams: TMAX
   
   
 
NARCCAP
Results from Experiment 0.1
 
Validation data are bi-linearly interpolated to the model native grid. To view a full image in a new browser, click on a thumbnail image.

Definition of Metrics
Bias: Difference of time average quantities

Use the following links to see plots of other variables:
500 hPa Height
Maximum Temperature
Minimum Temperature
Precipitation

 

 
February
1979
May
1979
August
1979
November
1979
TMAX: CRU TS2.10
TMAX:
ISUMM5
TMAX Bias:
ISUMM5 Minus CRU
TMAX:
Canadiam RCM
TMAX Bias:
Canadian Minus CRU
TMAX:
PNLMM5
TMAX Bias:
PNLMM5 Minus CRU
TMAX:
REGCM3
TMAX Bias:
REGCM3 Minus CRU

 

One of the goals of NARCCAP is to compare regional climate model simulations using different reanalyses as driving data. Such comparisons will help establish a baseline for model sensitivity to initial and boundary data. Below are comparisons of CRU observations with HadRM3P output. HadRM3P uses ECMWF Reanalysis-15 as driving data.

 

 
February
1979
May
1979
August
1979
November
1979
TMAX: CRU TS2.10
TMAX: HadRM3P
TMAX Bias:
HadRM3P Minus CRU
 
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