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Regional Models

Model	Aliases	Modeling Group	Full Name
CRCM	MRCC	OURANOS / UQAM	Canadian Regional Climate Model / le Modèle Régional Canadien du Climat
ECPC	RSM	UC San Diego / Scripps	Experimental Climate Prediction Center Regional Spectral Model
HRM3	PRECIS, HadRM3	Hadley Centre	Hadley Regional Model 3 / Providing REgional Climates for Impact Studies
MM5I	MM5, MM5P*	Iowa State University	MM5 - PSU/NCAR mesoscale model
RCM3	RegCM3	UC Santa Cruz	Regional Climate Model version 3
WRFP	WRF	Pacific Northwest Nat'l Lab	Weather Research & Forecasting model

*Notes: The first column is the 4-letter abbreviation code used in naming datafiles. The MM5 model was initially tested with two sets of parameters, one from PNNL and one from ISU. The MM5 model is being run by the ISU modeling group, and the results are therefore referred to as MM5I, but it is being run using the PNNL parameters because they produced better results. If data generated using the ISU parameters becomes available, it will be designated MAIP (MM5 - Alternate ISU Parameters) to try and minimize confusion.

Drivers

Driver	Full Name
CCSM	Community Climate System Model
CGCM3	Third Generation Coupled Global Climate Model
GFDL	Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory GCM
HadCM3	Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3
NCEP	NCEP/DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis

*Note: NCEP is not a GCM, but a reanalysis, a restrospective model of the atmosphere based on observed data.

Map Projections

CRCM	Polar Stereographic
ECPC	Polar Stereographic
HRM3	Rotated Pole
MM5I	Lambert Conformal
RCM3	Transverse Mercator
WRFP	Lambert Conformal

RCM / GCM combinations

	Phase I	Phase II
	NCEP	GFDL	CGCM3	HADCM3	CCSM
CRCM	X		X	X
ECPC	X	X			X
HRM3	X	X	X	X	X
MM5I	X			X	X
RCM3	X	X	X
WRFP	X	X	X		X