Table 3.
Historic evolution of the quantitative representation of present-day global annual mean downward longwave radiation in multi-model means of different generations of climate models covering 30 years of model development
| Model Generation | # Of models | Multi-model mean (W m−2) | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-AMIP (late 1980s) | 6 | 327 | Wild et al. (1995) |
| 11 | 329 | Wild et al. (2001) | |
| AMIPII (1990s) | 20 | 336 | Wild (2008) |
| CMIP3 (early 2000s) | 20 | 337 | Wild (2008) |
| CMIP5 (late 2000s) | 22 | 338 | Wild et al. (2013) |
| 43 | 340 | Wild et al. (2015) | |
| CMIP6 (late 2010s) | 38 | 344 | This study |
| Recent reference estimates | 342 | Wild et al. (2013, 2015) | |
| 342 | Wang and Dickinson (2013) | ||
| 341 | L’Ecuyer et al. (2015) | ||
| 344 | Kato et al. (2018) |