TY - JOUR AU1 - van Ulden, A. P. AU2 - van Oldenborgh, G. J. AU3 - AB - Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 863–881, 2006 Atmospheric www.atmos-chem-phys.net/6/863/2006/ Chemistry © Author(s) 2006. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. and Physics Large-scale atmospheric circulation biases and changes in global climate model simulations and their importance for climate change in Central Europe A. P. van Ulden and G. J. van Oldenborgh KNMI, P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands Received: 1 June 2005 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 25 August 2005 Revised: 23 December 2005 – Accepted: 27 January 2006 – Published: 20 March 2006 Abstract. The quality of global sea level pressure pat- months, which can be attributed to severe summer drying in terns has been assessed for simulations by 23 coupled cli- the simulations by these models. The models differ also sig- mate models. Most models showed high pattern correlations. nificantly in the simulated warming of cold winter months. With respect to the explained spatial variance, many models Finally, the models simulate rather different changes in North showed serious large-scale deficiencies, especially at mid- Atlantic sea surface temperature, which is likely to impact on latitudes. Five models performed well at all latitudes and for changes in temperature and precipitation. These results im- TI - Large-scale atmospheric circulation biases and changes in global climate model simulations and their importance for climate change in Central Europe JF - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics DO - 10.5194/acp-6-863-2006 DA - 2006-03-20 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/large-scale-atmospheric-circulation-biases-and-changes-in-global-L1G9Kh8Adg DP - DeepDyve ER -