The Influences of the Model Configuration on the Simulation of Stratospheric Northern-Hemisphere Polar Vortex in the CMIP5 Models

Figure 1

The vertical coverage and layers of the 42 CMIP5 models used in this study, with the blue lines indicating the tropopause and stratopause. The overall height of a box represents the altitude of the atmospheric model top and the solid lines in the boxes indicate the altitudes of the vertical layers. The 14 leftmost models are lacking specific layer information.