Research Article

Precipitation over Northern South America and Its Seasonal Variability as Simulated by the CMIP5 Models

Table 2

Seasonal interhemispheric SST gradient over the eastern equatorial Pacific calculated from CFSR and seven CMIP5 models historical runs. Values are in °C. Asterisk indicates observational dataset.

ModelDJF MAM JJASON

CFSR*1.895171.497353.413263.87762
FGOALS-g20.456970.225931.744642.12937
GFDLESM2M0.503459−0.3922472.659283.71255
HadGEM2-CC1.436090.719752.558613.29488
HadGEM2-ES1.578530.8601852.702453.45589
NorESM1-M0.3727820.07904512.495142.91459
NorESM1-ME0.5778460.1813022.594443.07089
CCSM40.3964340.2149032.64812.93682