Evaluation of CMIP5 Global Climate Models for Simulating Climatological Temperature and Precipitation for Southeast Asia
Table 4
List of the six global climate models performing best for different categories, including temperature only, precipitation only, land only, and sea only.
Rank
Temperature only
Precipitation only
Land only
Sea only
All
1
CNRM-CM5-2 (7.82)
CESM1-BGC (3.60)
CNRM-CM5-2 (5.65)
CNRM-CM5 (3.12)
CNRM-CM5-2 (12.37)
2
CNRM-CM5 (7.95)
CCSM4 (4.18)
CNRM-CM5 (7.08)
BNU-ESM (3.21)
CNRM-CM5 (13.29)
3
MPI-ESM-LR (8.12)
CNRM-CM5-2 (4.54)
MIROC5 (7.15)
CNRM-CM5-2 (3.31)
BNU-ESM (15.36)
4
CMCC-CMS (8.93)
CESM1-FASTCHEM (4.99)
CESM1-CAM5 (7.40)
CESM1-BGC (3.47)
CESM1-BGC (16.18)
5
BNU-ESM (9.38)
CESM-CAM5 (5.30)
CESM1-BGC (7.59
CESM1-FASTCHEM (3.59)
CESM-CAM5 (16.36)
6
MPI-ESM-MR (9.47)
CNRM-CM5 (5.34)
CanESM2 (7.92)
CCSM4 (3.60)
CCSM4 (17.69)
Numbers in parenthesis are total errors for different categories.
