Table 1.

Observed and Simulated Data Sets

Data Set	Period	Resolution	References
CERES	2000–2012	1^∘×1^∘
EBAFv2.7			Loeb et al. [2012]
ERBS WFOV	1985–1999	10^∘×10^∘	Wielicki et al. [2002]
Ed.3 Rev1	72days	60^∘S–60^∘N	Wong et al. [2006]
ERA Interim	1985–2012	1.5^∘×1.5^∘	Dee et al. [2011]
HadCRUT4	1985–2012	5^∘×5^∘
v4.1.1.0			Morice et al. [2012]
CMIP5 models^a
CanESM2		2.77^∘×2.81^∘	Arora et al. [2011]
CNRM-CM5		1.39^∘×1.41^∘	Voldoire et al. [2012]
GISS-E2-R		2.0^∘×2.5^∘	Schmidt et al. [2014]
HadGEM2-ES		1.25^∘×1.88^∘	Collins et al. [2011]
INM-CM4		1.5^∘×2.0^∘	Volodin et al. [2010]
IPSL-CM5A-LR		1.89^∘×3.75^∘	Dufresne et al. [2013]
MIROC5		1.39^∘×1.41^∘	Watanabe et al. [2010]
MRI-CGCM3		1.11^∘×1.13^∘	Yukimoto et al. [2012]
NorESM1-M		1.89^∘×2.5^∘	Zhang et al. [2012]
UPSCALE	1985–2011	0.35^∘×0.23^∘	Mizielinski et al. [2014]

All CMIP5 simulations include an amip (1985–2008) and historical/rcp45 (1985–2012) experiment (one ensemble member each). EBAFv2.7 is version 2.7 of the Energy Balance and Filled CERES product; Ed.3 Rev 1 denotes version 3 revision 1 of the ERBS WFOV dataset; HadCRUT4 is the 4th version of the Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit dataset, sub version 4.1.1.0; details of the CMIP5 models are available at http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/ CMIP5_modeling_groups.pdf.