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The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project

Abstract The Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) project is an international effort to produce a comprehensive global atmospheric circulation dataset spanning the twentieth cent...

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

In preparation for the fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international community is developing new advanced Earth System...

Studies with a flexible new radiation code. I: Choosing a configuration for a large‐scale model

Abstract A comprehensive new radiation code based on the two‐stream equations in both the long‐wave and short‐wave spectral regions is described. The spectral resolution of the ...

Estimates of aerosol radiative forcing from the MACC re-analysis

Abstract. The European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) provides an aerosol re-analysis starting from year 2003 for the Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Cl...

Revised “LEPS” Scores for Assessing Climate Model Simulations and Long-Range Forecasts

The most commonly used measures for verifying forecasts or simulators of continuous variables are root-mean-squared error (rmse) and anomaly correlation. Some disadvantages of t...

Research priorities in land use and land‐cover change for the Earth system and integrated assessment modelling

Abstract This special issue has highlighted recent and innovative methods and results that integrate observations and modelling analyses of regional to global aspect of biophysi...

Progress and challenges in short- to medium-range coupled prediction

The availability of GODAE Oceanview-type ocean forecast systems provides the opportunity to develop high-resolution, short- to medium-range coupled prediction systems. Several g...