Table 1 Salient features of the GCMs used in this study.

From: Modeling of historical and future changes in temperature and precipitation in the Panj River Basin in Central Asia under the CMIP5 RCP and CMIP6 SSP scenarios

Institution/Country

Abbreviation

Model

Native Resolution

Beijing Climate Centre, Beijing, China

BCC-CSM

CMIP5

bcc-csm1-1

 ~ 2.8° × 2.8°

CMIP6

BCC-CSM2-MR

 ~ 1.1° × 1.1°

Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, Canada

CanESM

CMIP5

CanESM2

 ~ 2.8° × 2.8°

CMIP6

CanESM

 ~ 2.8° × 2.8°

Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques, Toulouse 31,057, France

CNRM-CM

CMIP5

CNRM-CM5

 ~ 1.4° × 1.4°

CMIP6

CNRM-CM6

 ~ 1.4° × 1.4°

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Coupled Model, United States

GFDL-CM

CMIP5

GFDL-CM3

 ~ 2.5° × 2.0°

CMIP6

GFDL-CM4

 ~ 1.0° × 1.0°

Institute for Numerical Mathematics, Russia

INMCM

CMIP5

inmcm4

 ~ 2.0° × 1.5°

CMIP6

INM-CM5

 ~ 2.0° × 1.5

Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Paris, France

IPSL-CM-LR

CMIP5

IPSL-CM5A-LR

 ~ 3.8° × 1.9°

CMIP6

IPSL-CM6A-LR

 ~ 2.5° × 1.3°

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kanagawa, Japan

MIROC

CMIP5

MIROC5

 ~ 1.4° × 1.4°

CMIP6

MIROC6

 ~ 1.4° × 1.4°

Max Plank Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Germany

MPI-ESM-LR

CMIP5

MPI-ESM-LR

 ~ 1.9° × 1.9°

CMIP6

MPI-ESM1-2-LR

 ~ 1.9° × 1.9°