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GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 1789-1816Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-1789-2017
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- EPSRC [EP/K019112/1]
- NERC's National Capability Programme
- Natural Environment Research Council [noc010010] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [noc010010] Funding Source: UKRI
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In this paper we discuss climate model tuning and present an iterative automatic tuning method from the statistical science literature. The method, which we refer to here as iterative refocussing (though also known as history matching), avoids many of the common pitfalls of automatic tuning procedures that are based on optimisation of a cost function, principally the over-tuning of a climate model due to using only partial observations. This avoidance comes by seeking to rule out parameter choices that we are confident could not reproduce the observations, rather than seeking the model that is closest to them (a procedure that risks overtuning). We comment on the state of climate model tuning and illustrate our approach through three waves of iterative refocussing of the NEMO (Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean) ORCA2 global ocean model run at 2 degrees resolution. We show how at certain depths the anomalies of global mean temperature and salinity in a standard configuration of the model exceeds 10 standard deviations away from observations and show the extent to which this can be alleviated by iterative refocussing without compromising model performance spatially. We show how model improvements can be achieved by simultaneously perturbing multiple parameters, and illustrate the potential of using low-resolution ensembles to tune NEMO ORCA configurations at higher resolutions.
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