GCM

Grid resolution

Research center

Bcc-csm

2.81

Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration

CanCM4

2.81

Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis

CCSM4

1.25

NCAR Community Climate System Model

CMCC-CM

0.75

Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per Cambiamenti Climatici

CNRM-CM5

1.41

Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques/Centre Europeen de Recherche et Formation Avancees en Calcul Scientifique

FGOALS-g2

2.81

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

GFDL-CM2p1

1.25

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

IPSL-CM5A-LR

3.75

Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace

HadGEM2-ES

1.88

Met Office

MIROC5

1.41

University of Tokyo, National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

MPI-ESM-LR

1.88 (45 vertical layers)

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

MPI-ESM-MR

1.88 (95 vertical layers)

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

MRI_CGCM3

1.13

Meteorological Research Institute-Japan