Model

Model Full Name

Institution

Horizontal Resolution (degree longitude × degree latitude)

CCSM 4.0

Community Climate

System Model (CCSM),

version 4

National Center for

Atmospheric Research

(NCAR), United States

1.3 × 0.9

CNRM-CM5

Centre National de

Recherches

Meteorologiques

(CNRM) Coupled

Global Climate Model,

version 5

CNRM?Centre Europeen de Recherche et de

Formation Avancee en Calcul Scientifique

(CERFACS), France

1.4 × 1.4

MIROC5

Model for Interdisciplinary

Research on Climate

(MIROC), version 5

Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan

1.4 × 1.4

GFDL-CM3

Geophysical Fluid

Dynamics Laboratory

(GFDL) climate

Model version 3

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States

2.5 × 2.0

NorESM1-M

Norwegian Earth System

Model

Norwegian Climate Centre

(NCC), Norway

2.5 × 1.9

MPI-ESM-LR

Max Planck Institute (MPI) Earth System Model, low resolution

Max Planck Institute, Germany

1.9 × 1.9