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<h1> Report Series</h1>

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<li> <a href="ab1.html">Report 1: The Validation of Atmospheric Models</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab2.html">Report 2: Analysis of the Temporal Behavior of Tropical Convection in the ECMWF Model</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab3.html">Report 3: The Effect of Horizontal Resolution on Ocean Surface Heat Fluxes in the ECMWF Model</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab4.html">Report 4: Behavior of an Ocean General Circulation Model at Four Different Horizontal Resolutions</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab5.html">Report 5: The Effects of Sampling Frequency on the Climate Statistics of the ECMWF General Circulation Model</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab6.html">Report 6: Sensitivity of Dynamical Quantities to Horizontal Resolution in a Climate Simulation with the ECMWF Atmospheric General Circulation Model (Cycle 33)</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab7.html">Report 7: AMIP: The Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab8.html">Report 8: The Impact of Horizontal Resolution on Moist Processes in the ECMWF Model</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab9.html">Report 9: A Modeling Perspective on Cloud Radiative Forcing</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab10.html">Report 10: The Use of General Circulation Models in Detecting Climate Change Induced by Greenhouse Gases</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab11.html">Report 11: Preliminary Validation of the Low Frequency Variability of Tropospheric Temperature and Circulation Simulated for the AMIP by the ECMWF Model</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab12.html">Report 12: Simulation of the Indian and East-Asian Summer Monsoon in the ECMWF Model: Sensitivity to Horizontal Resolution</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab13.html">Report 13: Statistical Intercomparison of Global Climate Models: A Common Principal Component Approach</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab14.html">Report 14: Ocean Variability and its Influence on the Detectability of Greenhouse Warming Signals</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab15.html">Report 15: Cloud-Radiative Effects on Implied Oceanic Energy Transports as Simulated by Atmospheric General Circulation Models</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab16.html">Report 16: DRS User's Guide</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab17.html">Report 17: The PCMDI Visualization and Computation System (VCS): A Workbench for Climate Data Display and Analysis</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab18.html">Report 18: A Summary Documentation of the AMIP Models</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab19.html">Report 19: Global Ocean Circulation and Equator-Pole Heat Transport as a Function of Ocean GCM Resolution</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab20.html">Report 20: The Northern Wintertime Divergence Extrema at 200 hPa and Surface Cyclones as Simulated in the AMIP Integration of the ECMWF General Circulation Model</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab21.html">Report 21: Towards the Detection and Attribution of an Anthropogenic Effect on Climate</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab22.html">Report 22: The Effect of Horizontal Resolution on Cloud Radiative Forcing in the ECMWF Model</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab23.html">Report 23: Intercomparison of the Spectral Characteristics of 200 hPa Kinetic Energy in Some AMIP Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab24.html">Report 24: Documentation of the AMIP Models on the World Wide Web</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab25.html">Report 25: Estimates of Zonally Averaged Tropical Diabatic Heating in AMIP GCM Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab26.html">Report 26:Uncertainties in Global Ocean Surface Heat Flux Climatologies Derived from Ship Observations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab27.html">Report 27: A Search for Human Influences on the Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab28.html">Report 28: Interannual Tropical Rainfall Variability in General Circulation Model Simulations Associated with the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab29.html">Report 29: Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis of Climate Data</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab30.html">Report 30: Correlation Between Outgoing Longwave Radiation and Surface Temperature in the Tropical Pacific: A Model Intercomparison</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab31.html">Report 31: Seasonal Characteristics of Precipitation over the United States in AMIP Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab32.html">Report 32: Intercomparison of Low-Frequency Variability of the Global 200 hPa Circulation for AMIP Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab33.html">Report 33: Model Simulated Northern Winter Cyclone and Anticyclone Activity under a Greenhouse Warming Scenario</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab34.html">Report 34: EzGet: A Library of Fortran Subroutines to Facilitate Data Retrieval</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab35.html">Report 35: Structure of the Tropical Lower Stratosphere as Revealed by Three Reanalysis Data Sets</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab36.html">Report 36: On the Maintenance and Initiation of the Intraseasonal Oscillation in the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis and the GLA and UKMO AMIP Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab37.html">Report 37: Intercomparison of the Seasonal Cycle in 200 hPa Kinetic Energy in AMIP GCM Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab38.html">Report 38: Climatology of East Asian Winter Monsoon and Cold Surges: Results from the 1979-1995 NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab39.html">Report 39: GCM Simulated East Asian Winter Monsoon: Results from Eight AMIP Models</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab40.html">Report 40: Comparing GCM Simulations, Ensembles and Model Revisions Using Common Principal Components</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab41.html">Report 41: Comparison of CCM3 Simulations Using Two Climatological Ozone Data Sets</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab42.html">Report 42: Preliminary Comparison of Climatological Ozone Data Sets</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab43.html">Report 43: Atmospheric Ozone Climatology for Use in General Circulation Models</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab44.html">Report 44:&nbsp; The PCMDI Software System:&nbsp; Status and Future Plans</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab45.html">Report 45:&nbsp; An Overview of the Results of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP)</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab46.html">Report 46:&nbsp; The Sensitivity of AGCM Simulations to the Temporal Resolution of&nbsp; Ocean Surface Boundary Conditions</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab47.html">Report 47:&nbsp; Determination of the Sampling Size of AGCM Ensemble Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab48.html">Report 48:&nbsp; Are Revised Models Better Models? A Skill Score Assessment of Interannual Variability</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab49.html">Report 49:&nbsp; Comparison of the 200 hPa circulation in CSM and CCM3 simulations and NCEP and ERA reanalysis:&nbsp; Principal and Common Principal Components</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab50.html">Report 50:&nbsp; Comparison of the 200 hPa circulation in CSM and CCM3 simulations and NCEP and ERA reanalysis:&nbsp;&nbsp; Seasonal Cycle and Interannual variation</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab51.html">Report 51:&nbsp; The Seasonal Cycle in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab52.html">Report 52:&nbsp; Sampling Strategies for the Comparison of Climate Model Calculated and Satellite Observed Brightness Temperatures</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab53.html">Report 53:&nbsp; Predictability and the Relationship Between Subseasonal and Interannual Variability During the Asian Summer Monsoon</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab54.html"> Report 54: Comparison of Atmospheric Water Vapor in Observational and Model Data Sets</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab55.html">Report 55:&nbsp; Summarizing&nbsp; Multiple Aspects of Model Performance in a Single Diagram</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab56.html">Report 56: Dynamical Seasonal Predictability of the Asian Summer Monsoon</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab57.html">Report 57: Uncertainties in Observationally Based Estimates of Temperature Change in the Free Atmosphere</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab58.html">Report 58: An Objective Method for Generating Land/Sea Masks for use in GCM Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab59.html">Report 59: Statistical Significance of Trends and Trend Differences in Layer-Average Atmospheric Temperature Time Series</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab60.html">Report 60: The Sea Surface Temperature and Sea-Ice Concentration Boundary Conditions for AMIP II Simulations</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab61.html">Report 61: The El Nino Southern Oscillation in Coupled GCMs</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab62.html">Report 62:&nbsp; Vertical Correlations of Water Vapor in GCMs</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab63.html">Report 63:&nbsp; Validation of Land-Surface Processes in AMIP Models: A Pilot Study</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab64.html">Report 64:&nbsp; Interannual Variations in Simulated and Observed MSU-2 Temperatures</a></li>

<li> <a href="ab65.html">Report 65:&nbsp; Comparison of Variability of the Monthly Mean Temperature of the ECMWF and NCEP Reanalyses and CCM3 and CSM Simulations</a></li>

<li> <font color="#000000"><a href="ab66.html">Report 66:&nbsp; Intercomparison of Present and Future Climates Simulated by Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCMs</a></font></li>

<li> <font color="#000000">&nbsp; <a href="ab67.html">Report 67: Accounting for the Effects of Volcanoes and ENSO in Comparisons of Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends</a></font></li>

<li> <font color="#3333FF"><a href="ab68.html">Report 68: On the Potential Predictabilty of Seasonal Land-Surface Climate</a></font></li>

<li> <font color="#3333FF"><a href="ab69.html">Report 69:Intercomparison of Climate Data Sets as a Measure of Observational Uncertainty</a></font></li>

<li> <font color="#3333FF"><a href="ab70.html">Report 70: The CCPP-ARM Parameterization Testbed (CAPT): Where Climate Simulation Meets Weather Prediction</a></font></li>

<li> <font color="#3333FF">&nbsp;<a href="{{site.baseurl}}/mips/cmip/appraisal.html">An Appraisal of Coupled Climate Model Simulations</a></font></li>