ESMValTool v2

Scientific diagnostics

  • Eyring, V., Bock, L., Lauer, A., Righi, M., Schlund, M., Andela, B., Arnone, E., Bellprat, O., Brötz, B., Caron, L.-P., Carvalhais, N., Cionni, I., Cortesi, N., Crezee, B., Davin, E. L., Davini, P., Debeire, K., de Mora, L., Deser, C., Docquier, D., Earnshaw, P., Ehbrecht, C., Gier, B. K., Gonzalez-Reviriego, N., Goodman, P., Hagemann, S., Hardiman, S., Hassler, B., Hunter, A., Kadow, C., Kindermann, S., Koirala, S., Koldunov, N., Lejeune, Q., Lembo, V., Lovato, T., Lucarini, V., Massonnet, F., Müller, B., Pandde, A., Pérez-Zanón, N., Phillips, A., Predoi, V., Russell, J., Sellar, A., Serva, F., Stacke, T., Swaminathan, R., Torralba, V., Vegas-Regidor, J., von Hardenberg, J., Weigel, K., and Zimmermann, K.: Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – an extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 3383–3438, doi: 10.5194/gmd-13-3383-2020, 2020.

  • Lauer, A., Eyring, V., Bellprat, O., Bock, L., Gier, B. K., Hunter, A., Lorenz, R., Pérez-Zanón, N., Righi, M., Schlund, M., Senftleben, D., Weigel, K., and Zechlau, S.: Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – diagnostics for emergent constraints and future projections from Earth system models in CMIP, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 4205–4228, doi: 10.5194/gmd-13-4205-2020, 2020

  • Weigel, K., Bock, L., Gier, B. K., Lauer, A., Righi, M., Schlund, M., Adeniyi, K., Andela, B., Arnone, E., Berg, P., Caron, L.-P., Cionni, I., Corti, S., Drost, N., Hunter, A., Lledó, L., Mohr, C. W., Paçal, A., Pérez-Zanón, N., Predoi, V., Sandstad, M., Sillmann, J., Sterl, A., Vegas-Regidor, J., von Hardenberg, J., and Eyring, V.: Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – diagnostics for extreme events, regional and impact evaluation, and analysis of Earth system models in CMIP, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 3159–3184, doi: 10.5194/gmd-14-3159-2021, 2021.

Technical description

  • Righi, M., Andela, B., Eyring, V., Lauer, A., Predoi, V., Schlund, M., Vegas-Regidor, J., Bock, L., Brötz, B., de Mora, L., Diblen, F., Dreyer, L., Drost, N., Earnshaw, P., Hassler, B., Koldunov, N., Little, B., Loosveldt Tomas, S., and Zimmermann, K.: Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – technical overview, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 1179–1199, doi: 10.5194/gmd-13-1179-2020, 2020.

Processing “native” climate model output

  • Schlund, M., Hassler, B., Lauer, A., Andela, B., Jöckel, P., Kazeroni, R., Loosveldt Tomas, S., Medeiros, B., Predoi, V., Sénési, S., Servonnat, J., Stacke, T., Vegas-Regidor, J., Zimmermann, K., and Eyring, V.: Evaluation of native Earth system model output with ESMValTool v2.6.0, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 315–333, doi: 10.5194/gmd-16-315-2023, 2023.

Parallel, out-of-core, and distributed computing

  • Schlund, M., Andela, B., Benke, J., Comer, R., Hassler, B., Hogan, E., Kalverla, P., Lauer, A., Little, B., Loosveldt Tomas, S., Nattino, F., Peglar, P., Predoi, V., Smeets, S., Worsley, S., Yeo, M., and Zimmermann, K.: Advanced climate model evaluation with ESMValTool v2.11.0 using parallel, out-of-core, and distributed computing, Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 4009-4021, doi: 10.5194/gmd-18-4009-2025, 2025.

Further Related References

ESMValTool v1

  • Eyring, V., Righi, M., Lauer, A., Evaldsson, M., Wenzel, S., Jones, C., Anav, A., Andrews, O., Cionni, I., Davin, E. L., Deser, C., Ehbrecht, C., Friedlingstein, P., Gleckler, P., Gottschaldt, K.-D., Hagemann, S., Juckes, M., Kindermann, S., Krasting, J., Kunert, D., Levine, R., Loew, A., Mäkelä, J., Martin, G., Mason, E., Phillips, A. S., Read, S., Rio, C., Roehrig, R., Senftleben, D., Sterl, A., van Ulft, L. H., Walton, J., Wang, S., and Williams, K. D.: ESMValTool (v1.0) – a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 1747–1802, doi: 10.5194/gmd-9-1747-2016, 2016.

  • Lauer, A., V. Eyring, M. Righi, M. Buchwitz, P. Defourny, M. Evaldsson, P. Friedlingstein, R. de Jeuf, G. de Leeuw, A. Loew, C. J. Merchant, B. Müller, T. Popp, M. Reuter, S. Sandven, D. Senftleben, M. Stengel, M. Van Roozendael, S. Wenzel, and U. Willén: Benchmarking CMIP5 models with a subset of ESA CCI Phase 2 data using the ESMValTool, Remote Sensing of Environment, 203, 9-39, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.007, 2017.

Other

  • Eyring, V., Gleckler, P. J., Heinze, C., Stouffer, R. J., Taylor, K. E., Balaji, V., Guilyardi, E., Joussaume, S., Kindermann, S., Lawrence, B. N., Meehl, G. A., Righi, M., and Williams, D. N.: Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP, Earth Syst. Dynam., 7, 813-830, doi: 10.5194/esd-7-813-2016, 2016.

Acknowledgements

If you used ESMValTool or any of its figures in your publication, please acknowledge the tool with the following sentences:

ESMValTool v2 is released under the Apache License, version 2.0. The latest release of ESMValTool v2 is publicly available on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3401363. The ESMValCore package, which is installed as a dependency of ESMValTool v2, is also publicly available on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3387139. ESMValTool and ESMValCore are developed on the GitHub repositories available at https://github.com/ESMValGroup (last access: INSERT DATE).

In addition, we encourage citation of the software documentation papers listed above. Citing these papers and registering your paper(s) will help to document the scientific impact of ESMValTool, which is of vital importance for acquiring future funding to help the ESMValTool team to keep improving and extending the tool.

For convenience, you can download a BibTex file for the documentation papers listed above here. To cite the code, we kindly ask you to use the Zenodo links given above to reference the correct ESMValTool version for your paper.