"Model ensembles" refers to a group of different models or predictions working together. It helps to improve accuracy by combining multiple perspectives or opinions for a more reliable outcome.
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In Fig. 6, the values of circle indicate the average of error
of model ensemble members.
There's a heap of evidence that
single model ensembles simply don't generate as diverse a range of behaviour as structurally different models can do.
In terms of model error, Y12 investigated only the relationship between the errors of ensemble mean and standard deviation of
model ensemble members.
The first row indicates the climate variables used for the analysis which are the same as those in Fig. 1, and the left column shows the climate
model ensembles with number of ensemble members in parenthesis.
Central tendency
for model ensembles requires that models be random realizations of the same underlying population.
El Niño forecast, IRI ensemble: leading climate models show El Niño during summer 2014 Compared to last month's forecast the IRI climate
model ensemble shows a somewhat faster development of a positive ENSO state and clear indications of El Niño... Continue reading →
Recent climate change literature has been dominated by studies which show that the equilibrium climate sensitivity is better constrained than the latest estimates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) and that the best estimate of the climate sensitivity is considerably lower than the climate
model ensemble average.
Especially for the climate variables such as SAT, SLP, SW and LW clear - sky radiation as shown in Fig 6 (1), (3), (6), and (9), the average of errors in MMEs and SMEs are similar, but the distances
between model ensembles in MMEs are larger than SMEs.
However, relationships between observable metrics and the predicted quantity of interest (e.g., climate sensitivity) can be explored
across model ensembles.
Bottom panels show the present - day, annually averaged sensible heat (c) and evaporation (d) fluxes poleward of 60N for a 16 - member CMIP5 climate
model ensemble using the RCP8.5 scenario.
The dark blue shading represents the envelope of the full set of thirty - five SRES scenarios using the
simple model ensemble mean results.
Here we count the rank of observation
among model ensemble members and create histogram, so the number of rank in horizontal axis is from one to the number of ensemble plus one.
Sea ice - ocean
model ensemble run initialized through assimilation of sea - ice / ocean observations (CryoSat - 2 ice thickness, OSI SAF sea ice concentration and SST, and University of Bremen snow depth) in March and April.
Likewise, to properly represent internal climate variability, the
full model ensemble spread must be used in a comparison against the observations (e.g., Box 9.2; Section 11.2.3.2; Raftery et al. (2005); Wilks (2006); Jolliffe and Stephenson (2011)-RRB-.
At the pan-arctic level, the two coupled ice - ocean
model ensemble simulations (Kauker, Zhang) show good agreement, in particular regarding ice conditions in the East Siberian Sea.
This parameter uncertainty has been studied before with a much smaller
coupled model ensemble that could only be run on a supercomputer.
The US CLIVAR Working Group on Large «Initial - Condition» Earth
System Model Ensembles (LEs) was formed in March 2018.
The newest
model ensemble forecasts from the IPCC are still predicting 0.2 C per decade increase (a little less than Hansen's 1988 Scenario B.)
If the ensemble members are collectively far away from the observation (compared to their distances from each other), then the MST omitting the observation is smaller than the MSTs
removing model ensemble members.
The paper states that «Non-linear cloud feedbacks in different complex models make the relation between LGM and 2 × CO2 derived climate sensitivity more ambiguous than apparent in our
simplified model ensemble» so they do recognize this (it is of course hand - waving, but fair hand - waving).
More complex metrics have also been developed based on multiple observables in present day climate, and have been shown to have the potential to narrow the uncertainty in climate sensitivity across a
given model ensemble (Murphy et al., 2004; Piani et al., 2005).
The use of very large
atmospheric model ensemble to assess potential anthropogenic influence on the UK summer 2012 high rainfall totals, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94, No 9.