Table 1 Details of the different ensembles of climate considered in this study, consisting of 15 simulations from QldFCP-2 (oc denotes when downscaling involved ocean coupling), 7 simulations from CCAM-ACS, 7 simulations from BARPA-ACS, and 10 simulations from NARCliM2.0

From: Substantial increases in future precipitation extremes—insights from a large ensemble of downscaled CMIP6 models

GCMs

RCMs

CMIP6 Model

Model full name

Resolution

Ensemble member

QldFCP-2

CCAM-ACS

BARPA-ACS

NARCliM2

ACCESS-ESM1.5

Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator, version 1.5

1.875 × 1.25°

r6i1p1f1

CCAM

CCAM_oc

BARPA

2 x WRF

r20i1p1f1

CCAM_oc

   

r40i1p1f1

CCAM_oc

   

ACCESS_CM2

Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator, version 2

1.875 × 1.25°

r2i1p1f1

CCAM_oc

   

r4i1p1f1

 

CCAM_oc

BARPA

 

CESM2

Community Earth System Model, version 2

1.25 × 0.9°

r11i1p1f1

 

CCAM_oc

BARPA

 

CMCC-ESM2

Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

1.25 × 0.9°

r1i1p1f1

CCAM

CCAM_oc

BARPA

 

CNRM-CM6−1-HR

Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Coupled Global Climate Model, version 6.1, high-resolution

0.5 × 0.5°

r1i1p1f2

CCAM

   

r1i1p1f2

CCAM_oc

   

CNRM-ESM2

Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Earth System Model, version 2

1 × 1°

r1i1p1f2

 

CCAM_oc

  

EC-Earth3

European Community Earth-System Model, version 3

0.8 × 0.8°

r1i1p1f1

CCAM

CCAM_oc

BARPA

 

EC-Earth3-Veg

European Community Earth-System Model, version 3, Vegetation

0.8 × 0.8°

r1i1p1f1

   

2 x WRF

FGOALS-g3

Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model, grid point version 3

2.5 × 2.5°

r4i1p1f1

CCAM

   

GFDL-ESM4

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Earth System Model, version 4

1 × 1°

r1i1p1f1

CCAM

   

GISS-E2-2-G

Goddard Institute for Space Studies Model E2.2 G

2.0 × 2.5°

r2i1p1f2

r1i1p1f2*

CCAM

   

MPI-ESM1-2-LR

Max Planck Institute Earth System Model, version 1.2, low resolution

1.9 × 1.9°

r9i1p1f1

CCAM

   

MPI-ESM1-2-HR

Max Planck Institute Earth System Model, version 1.2, high resolution

0.9 × 0.9°

r1i1p1f1

  

BARPA

2 x WRF

MRI-ESM2-0

Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model, version 2.0

1.125 × 1.125°

r1i1p1f1

CCAM

   

NorESM2-MM

Norwegian Earth System Model, version 2, 1 degree resolution

1 × 1°

r1i1p1f1

CCAM

CCAM_oc

BARPA

2 x WRF

r1i1p1f1

CCAM_oc

   

UKESM1-0-LL

United Kingdom Earth System Model, version 1.0

1.875 × 1.25°

r1i1p1f2

   

2 x WRF

  1. An ensemble of 19 different CMIP6 GCMs was used for the downscaling.
  2. *For the GISS-E2-2-G model, r2i1p1f2 was downscaled; however, r1i1p1f1 was used for the host model comparison due to issues obtaining daily precipitation data for r2i1p1f2.
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