Articles | Volume 3, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-505-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-505-2022
Research article
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20 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 20 Apr 2022

Quantifying climate model representation of the wintertime Euro-Atlantic circulation using geopotential-jet regimes

Joshua Dorrington, Kristian Strommen, and Federico Fabiano

Data sets

Reanalysis and Model regime datasets, regression metrics, and example analysis code Joshua Dorrington and Federico Fabiano https://github.com/joshdorrington/GJR_hist_climate_data

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Short summary
We investigate how well current state-of-the-art climate models reproduce the wintertime weather of the North Atlantic and western Europe by studying how well different "regimes" of weather are captured. Historically, models have struggled to capture these regimes, making it hard to predict future changes in wintertime extreme weather. We show models can capture regimes if the right method is used, but they show biases, partially as a result of biases in jet speed and eddy strength.