What is the role of the observational dataset in the evaluation and scoring of climate models?

A multi-physics ensemble of present-day climate regional simulations over the Iberian Peninsula

(2012) Sonia Jerez et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Precipitation Climatology in an Ensemble of CORDEX-Africa Regional Climate Simulations

(2012) Grigory Nikulin et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

(2011) D. P. Dee et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Daily and monthly temperature and precipitation statistics as performance indicators for regional climate models

(2010) E Kjellström et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Validation of temperature trends in the ENSEMBLES regional climate model runs driven by ERA40

(2010) P Lorenz et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Model weighting based on mesoscale structures in precipitation and temperature in an ensemble of regional climate models

(2010) E Coppola et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Weight assignment in regional climate models

(2010) JH Christensen et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Exploring metrics of extreme daily precipitation in a large ensemble of regional climate model simulations

(2010) G Lenderink   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Development and analysis of a 50-year high-resolution daily gridded precipitation dataset over Spain (Spain02)

(2010) S. Herrera et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Risks of Model Weighting in Multimodel Climate Projections

(2010) Andreas P. Weigel et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Weighting of model results for improving best estimates of climate change

(2009) Jouni Räisänen et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Performance metrics for climate models

(2008) P. J. Gleckler et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950–2006

(2008) M. R. Haylock et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH