Model Name

Institution

Horizontal

resolution

ACCESS1-0

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization

(CSIRO)/Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)

192 × 145

ACCESS1-3

CSIRO/BoM

192 × 145

CCSM4

National Center for Atmospheric Research

288 × 192

CanESM2

Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis

128 × 64

CNRM-CM5

Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques

256 × 128

CESM1-BGC

National Center for Atmospheric Research

288 × 192

CESM1-CAM5

National Center for Atmospheric Research

288 × 192

FGOALS-g2

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

128 × 60

GFDL-CM3

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

144 × 90

GFDL-ESM-2G

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

144 × 90

GFDL-ESM-2M

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

144 × 90

GISS-E2-H

NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

144 × 90

GISS-E2-R

NASA/GISS

144 × 90

HadGEM2_AO

National Institute of Meteorological Research,

Korea Meteorological Administration (S. Korea)

192 × 145

HadGEM2_CC

Met Office Hadley Centre

192 × 145

HadGEM2_ES

Met Office Hadley Centre

192 × 145

INM

Institute of Numerical mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences

180 × 120

IPSL-CM5A-LR

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (France)

96 × 96

IPSL-CM5A-MR

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (France)

144 × 143

IPSL-CM5B-LR

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (France)

96 × 96

MIROC5

Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The Tokyo University

256 × 128

MIROC-ESM

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

128 × 64

MRI-CGCM3

Meteorological Research Institute

320 × 160

MPI-ESM-LR

Max Plank Institute (MPI) for Meteorology

128 × 64

MPI-ESM-MR

Max Plank Institute (MPI) for Meteorology

192 × 96

NorESM1-M

Bjerknes Center for Climate research, Norwegian Meteorological Institute

144 × 96

NorESM1-ME

144 × 96

global grids