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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 24.
Published in final edited form as: Bull Am Meteorol Soc. 2017 Jun 23;98(6):1185–1198. doi: 10.1175/bams-d-16-0019.1

Table 3:

Description of the ten PDRMIP models.

Model Version Resolution Ocean
setup
Aerosol setup Key references
CanESM2 2010 2.8°x2.8°, 35 levels Coupled ocean Emissions (Arora et al. 2011)
NCAR-CESM1-CAM4 1.0.3 2.5°x1.9°, 26 levels Slab ocean Fixed concentrations (Neale et al. 2010; Gent et al. 2011)
NCAR-CESM1-CAM5 1.1.2 2.5°x1.9°, 30 levels Coupled ocean Emissions (Hurrell et al. 2013). This is the same model as (Kay et al. 2015), but with a coarser resolution (Otto-Bliesner et al. 2015)
GISS-E2-R E2-R 2°x2.5°, 40 levels Coupled ocean Fixed concentrations (Schmidt et al. 2014)
HadGEM2-ES 6.6.3 1.875°x1.2 5°, 38 levels Coupled ocean Emissions (Collins et al. 2011; Martin et al. 2011)
HadGEM3 GA 4.0 1.875°x1.2 5°, 85 levels Coupled ocean Fixed concentrations (Bellouin et al. 2011; Walters et al. 2014)
IPSL-CM5A CMIP5 3.75°x 1.875°, 39 levels Coupled ocean Fixed concentrations (Dufresne et al. 2013)
MPI-ESM 1.1.00p2 T63, 47 levels Coupled ocean Climatology, year 2000 Roeckner et al. 2016 (in prep.)
NorESM1 NorESM1-M 2.5°x1.9°, 26 levels Coupled ocean Fixed concentrations (Bentsen et al. 2013; Iversen et al. 2013; Kirkevåg et al. 2013)
MIROC-SPRINTARS 5.9.0 T85 (approx.. 1.4°x1.4°), 40 levels Coupled ocean HTAP2 emissions (Takemura et al. 2005; Takemura et al. 2009; Watanabe et al. 2010)