Multimodel GCM-RCM Ensemble-Based Projections of Temperature and Precipitation over West Africa for the Early 21st Century

<table class="table-group" id="tab7"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="5"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Ensemble</td><td align="center">Ens/GCMs</td><td align="center">Ens/ECHAM5</td><td align="center">Ens/HadCM3</td><td align="center">Ens/RCMs</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="5"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">PCC</td><td align="center">0.916</td><td align="center">0.933</td><td align="center">0.942</td><td align="center">0.949</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="5"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Pattern correlation coefficient (PCC) over West Africa from the ensemble of RCMs driven by the same GCMs (Ens/ECHAM5 and Ens/HadCM3) and the ensemble of all RCMs and all GCMs (multi-model ensemble: Ens/RCMs and Ens/GCMs) rainfall with respect to GPCP. Ensembles data are interpolated to GPCP grid.  

International Journal of Geophysics

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Table 7: Multimodel GCM-RCM Ensemble-Based Projections of Temperature and Precipitation over West Africa for the Early 21st Century 