Regional climate model

Full name (Reference)

Modeling group

Lateral boundary conditions

Number found in percentile plots in Section 3

CRCM

Canadian Regional Climate Model (version 4.2.0)

(Caya and Laprise, 1999)

Quranos/UQAM

CCSM

CGCM3

8

7

ECP2

Experimental Climate Prediction Regional Spectral Model

(Juang et al., 1997)

University of California-San Diego/Scripps

GFDL

3

MM5I

MM5-PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model (version 5)

(Grell and Stauffer, 1993)

Iowa State University

CCSM

1

RCM3

Regional Climate Model (version 3)

(Giorgi et al., 1993)

University of California-Santa Cruz

CGCM3

GFDL

6

2

WRFG

Weather Research and Forecasting Model

(Leung et al., 2005)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

CCSM

CGCM3

4

5