an analysis of the full suite of CMIP5
historical simulations (augmented for the
period 2006 - 2012 by RCP4.5 simulations, Section 9.3.2) reveals that 111 out of 114 realisations show a GMST trend
over 1998 - 2012 that is higher than the entire HadCRUT4 trend ensemble... During the 15 - year
period beginning in 1998, the ensemble of HadCRUT4 GMST trends lies below almost all model -
simulated trends whereas during the 15 - year
period ending in 1998, it lies above 93 out of 114 modelled trends.
It follows that the real effect of masking to HadCRUT4 coverage
over the
historical period is, in the southern extra-tropics, almost certainly the opposite of that
simulated by CMIP5 models.