Table: List of CORDEX South Asia Regional Climate Model (RCM) Experiments

Experiment Name RCM Description Driving GCM Contributing Institute

COnsortium for Small- Institute for Atmospheric Max Planck Institute for scale MOdelling and Environmental Meteorology, Germany, Earth CCLM4(MPI) (COSMO) model in Sciences (IAES), Goethe System Model (MPI-ESM- CLimate Mode version 4.8 University, Frankfurt am LR; Giorgetta et al 2013) (CCLM; Dobler and Main (GUF), Germany Ahrens, 2008) Irish Centre for High-End Rosssy Centre, Swedish Rossby Centre regional Computing (ICHEC), Meteorological and RCA4(ICHEC) atmospheric model version European Consortium ESM Hydrological Institute 4 (RCA4; Samuelsson et (EC-EARTH; Hazeleger et al. (SMHI), Sweden al., 2011) 2012) CCAM(ACCESS) Commonwealth Scientific ACCESS1.0 CCAM(CNRM) and Industrial Research CNRM-CM5 CSIRO Marine and Organisation (CSIRO), CCAM(CCSM) CCSM4 Atmospheric Research, Conformal-Cubic CCAM(GFDL) GFDL-CM3 Melbourne, Australia Atmospheric Model CCAM(MPI) (CCAM; McGregor and MPI-ESM-LR CCAM(BCCR) Dix, 2001) NorESM-M

Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) Laboratoire Centre for Climate de Me´te´orologie IPSL Coupled Model version Change Research LMDZ4(IPSL) Dynamique Zoomed 5 (IPSL-CM5-LR; Dufresne et (CCCR), Indian Institute version 4 (LMDZ4) al. 2013) of Tropical Meteorology atmospheric general (IITM), India circulation model ( Sabin et al., 2013)

The Abdus Salam International Centre for RegCM4(LMDZ) Theoretical Physics (ICTP) IPSL LMDZ4 CCCR, IITM Regional Climatic Model version 4 (RegCM4; Giorgi et al., 2012)

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, USA, Earth RegCM4(GFDL) ICTP RegCM4 CCCR, IITM System Model (GFDL- ESM2M-LR; Dunne et al. 2012) MPI Regional model 2009 (REMO2009; Weblink: http://cccr.tropmet.res.in/ MPI-ESM-LR (Giorgetta et al Climate Service Center, REMO2009(MPI) cordex/docs/REMO- 2013) Hamburg, Germany CORDEX-DATA-WAS- IITM_4.pdf

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