Table 1.
Selection of RCMs used in this study
| Acronym | Grid projection & Hor. resolution | Forcing by global reanalysis | Time windows | GCM forcing/future scenarios | Time windows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRCM4.2.3 | Polar-Stereographic with true resolution of 45 km at 60°N 180×172 points | ERA-40 [41] | 1981 to 2004 | CGCM3.1 member 4 | Historical 1971 to 2000 |
| ERA-Interim [43] | SRES A2 2011 to 2070 | ||||
| CRCM5* | Rotated Pole latitude-longitude at resolution of 0.44° 172×160 points | ″ | ″ | CanESM2 | Historical: 1971 to 2005, RCP4.5/RCP8.5 2006 to 2070 |
| RCP4.5 | |||||
| CanRCM4* | Rotated Pole latitude-longitude at resolution of 0.44° 155×130 points | ″ | 1989 to 2010 | CanESM2 | ″ |
| RCP4.5 | |||||
| RCP8.5 | |||||
| HIRHAM5* | Latitude-longitude at resolution of 0.44° 130×155 points | ″ | ″ | ECEARTH | ″ |
| RCP4.5 | |||||
| RCP8.5 | |||||
| RCA4-v1* | ″ | ″ | ″ | ″ | |
| RegCM3** | Transverse Mercator at resolution of 50 km 170×110 points | NCEP/DOE AMIP-II [44] | 1981 to 2000 | GFDL | Historical 1970 to 1999 |
| SRES A2 2040 to 2069 | |||||
| ECPC** | Polar-Stereographic with true resolution of 50 km at 60°N 116×147 points | ″ | ″ | ″ | ″ |
| MM5I** | Lambert Conformal at resolution of 50 km 123×99 points | ″ | ″ | CCSM | ″ |
| WRF** | Lambert Conformal at resolution of 50 km 134×109 points | ″ | ″ | ″ | ″ |
*Simulations obtained from the CORDEX project; **Simulations obtained from NARCCAP runs.