CMIP X-MOS: Improving Climate Models with Extreme Model Output Statistics

Understand

Climate models are essential for assessing the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on our changing climate and the resulting increase in the frequency and severity of natural disasters.

• Despite the widespread acceptance of climate models produced by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), they still face challenges in accurately predicting climate extremes, which pose most significant threats to both people and the environment.
• To address this limitation and improve predictions of natural disaster risks, we introduce Extreme Model Output Statistics (X-MOS).
• This approach utilizes deep regression techniques to precisely map CMIP model outputs to real measurements obtained from weather stations, which results in a more accurate analysis of the XXI climate extremes.