{"id":20320,"date":"2017-04-11T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T02:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=20320"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T02:56:25","slug":"model-projections-and-observations-comparison-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2017\/04\/model-projections-and-observations-comparison-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Model projections and observations comparison page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"20320\">\n<p>We should have done this ages ago, but better late than never!<\/p>\n<p>We have set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/climate-model-projections-compared-to-observations\/\">permanent page<\/a> to host all of the model projection-observation comparisons that we have monitored over the years. This includes comparisons to early predictions for global mean surface temperature from the 1980&#8217;s as well as more complete projections from the CMIP3 and CMIP5. The aim is to maintain this annually, or more often if new datasets or versions become relevant. <\/p>\n<p>We are also happy to get advice on stylistic choices or variations that might make the graphs easier to comprehend or be more accurate &#8211; feel free to suggest them in the comments below (since the page itself will be updated over time, it doesn&#8217;t have comments associated with it).<\/p>\n<p>If there are additional comparisons you are aware of that you think would be useful to include, please point to the model and observational data set(s) and we&#8217;ll try and include that too. We should have the Arctic sea ice trends up shortly for instance.<\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 20320 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should have done this ages ago, but better late than never! We have set up a permanent page to host all of the model projection-observation comparisons that we have monitored over the years. This includes comparisons to early predictions for global mean surface temperature from the 1980&#8217;s as well as more complete projections from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climate-modelling","7":"category-climate-science","8":"category-instrumental-record","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20368,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions\/20368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}