Recipes to evaluate CORDEX-CMIP5 models

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Description

This PR contains tests recipes to produce the plots for WP2 of ESO4clima. It provides informational value, feel free to open another PR to merge the end product.

recipe_cordex-cmip5.yml

recipe_cordex-cmip5.yml plots maps for the CORDEX data and, if an observational dataset is present, computes the bias against it. The maps are useful to visually inspect the data and detect issues in the values or the grid. Some example plots that can be produced are the following:

recipe_cordex-cmip5_perfmetrics.yml

Produces the perfomance metrics plots for variable ts, which has been previously examined using the recipe to produce maps to ensure the data is consistent. It is pending to be expanded to support more variables and more CORDEX datasets. The current recipe contains a full list of CORDEX datasets that is commented and that should be uncommented when all CORDEX metadata and data issues are fixed in ESMValCore. The current recipe contains a sample list of datasets that produces a test performance plot for a single variable against two observational datasets, just to prove that there are no issues that prevent the diagnostic to be executed. It produces the following plot:

recipe_cordex-cmip5_perfmetrics_all

Produces the performance metrics plot for several variables in CORDEX and ESA-CCI data. The CORDEX datasets are the subset of the EUR-11 domain that are common for all variables. However the data has not visually inspected beforehand with recipe_cordex-cmip5,yml, so there may be data issues that are going unnoticed. It produces the following plot:

• Related to ESO4clima CORDEX CMIP5 recipe #4198
• Link to documentation:

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