Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1493-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1493-2020
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11 Aug 2020
Research article |  | 11 Aug 2020

An empirical evaluation of bias correction methods for palaeoclimate simulations

Robert Beyer, Mario Krapp, and Andrea Manica

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Even the most sophisticated global climate models are known to have significant biases in the way they simulate the climate system. Correcting model biases is therefore essential for creating realistic reconstructions of past climate that can be used, for example, to study long-term ecological dynamics. Here, we evaluated three widely used bias correction methods by means of a global dataset of empirical temperature and precipitation records from the last 125 000 years.