Model name

Institution

Horizontal resolution

ACCESS1-0

Commonwealth scientific and Industrial research organisation (CSIRO)/Bureau of morology (BoM)

192 × 145

ACCESS1-3

CSIRO/BoM

192 × 145

CCSM 4

National center for Atmospheric research

288 × 192

CanESM 2

Canadian centre for Climate modelling and Analysis

128 × 64

CNRM-CM5

Centre national de recherches meteorologiques

256 × 128

CESMI-BGC

National center for Atmospheric research

288 × 192

CESMI-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

Institute pierre simon laplace (France)

96 × 96

IPSL-CM5A-MR

Institute pierre simon laplace (France)

144 × 143

IPSL-CM5B-LR

Institute 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

NorESMI-M

Bjerknes center for Climate research, Norwegian meteorological institute

144 × 96

NorESMI-ME

144 × 96

Global grids