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Research brief: SSTs create biases in how ENSO appears in CMIP5 models

March 13, 2020 9:49 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: SSTs create biases in how ENSO appears in CMIP5 models

A new study by CLEX researchers and colleagues shows that CMIP5 models as a group, when forced by observed sea surface temperatures underestimate, these atmospheric feedbacks on average by 23%. This underestimate can be linked to the wrong location at which climate models simulate the most important tropical circulation, called the Walker circulation.