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SCIENCE
卷 354, 期 6311, 页码 452-455出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6369
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资金
- Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) Juan de la Cierva program
- Spanish national project PICA-ICE [GA CGL2012-31987]
- European Union [GA 308378]
- EUCLEIA [GA 607085]
- European Space Agency Living Planet Fellowship Programme under the project VERITAS
- Climate Model User Group (CMUG) of the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
Observational estimates of the climate system are essential to monitoring and understanding ongoing climate change and to assessing the quality of climate models used to produce near- and long-term climate information. This study poses the dual and unconventional question: Can climate models be used to assess the quality of observational references? We show that this question not only rests on solid theoretical grounds but also offers insightful applications in practice. By comparing four observational products of sea surface temperature with a large multimodel climate forecast ensemble, we find compelling evidence that models systematically score better against the most recent, advanced, but also most independent product. These results call for generalized procedures of model-observation comparison and provide guidance for a more objective observational data set selection.
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