Impacts of Model Bias on the Climate Change Signal and Effects of Weighted Ensembles of Regional Climate Model Simulations: A Case Study over Southern Québec, Canada

Table 1

Description of RCM/AOGCM combinations used in this study.

Number	RCM	Driven by	Time window	Modeling center/source
1	CRCM4.2.3 (aet)	CGCM3; 4th member	1963–2001; 2041–2070	Ouranos/University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)/Environment Canada
2	CRCM4.2.3 (aev)	CGCM3; 5th member
3	CRCM4.1.1; (QC domain)	CGCM3; 4th member	1968–2000; 2041–2070
4	CRCM4.2.0	CGCM3; 4th member	1968–2000; 2041–2070
5	RCM3		1968–2000; 2041–2065
6	CRCM4.2.0	CCSM	1968–1998; 2041–2070
7	MM5I		1968–1999; 2041–2070	NARCCAP (http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/)
8	WRFG		1968–1999; 2041–2070
9	RCM3	GFDL	1968–2000; 2041–2070
10	ECP2		1968–2001; 2041–2070
11	HRM3	HadCM3	1968–2000; 2041–2070
12	ARPEGE	ARPEGE	1961–2001; 2041–2070	Ouranos/Météo-France