Table 1 The decadal prediction hindcast systems and preindustrial control simulations used in this analysis using the CMIP5 nomenclature

From: Limits on determining the skill of North Atlantic Ocean decadal predictions

Institute (CMIP5 name)

Hindcast model (CMIP5 name)

No. start dates

No. ensemble members

Control model (CMIP5 name)

Initialisation methoda

BCC

bcc-csm1-1

47

3

bcc-csm1-1

FF

CCCma

CanCM4

52

3

CanESM2

FF

CMCC

CMCC-CM

9

1

CMCC-CM

FF

CNRM-CERFACS

CNRM-CM5

10

1

CNRM-CM5

FF

ICHEC

EC-EARTH

10

3

EC-EARTH

FF

IPSL

IPSL-CM5A-LR

10

3

IPSL-CM5A-LR

Anom

LASG-CESS

FGOALS-g2

10

3

FGOALS-g2

FF

LASG-IAP

FGOALS-s2

10

3

FGOALS-s2

FF

MIROC

MIROC4h

10

1

MIROC4h

Anom

MIROC

MIROC5

51

3

MIROC5

Anom

MOHC

DePreSys3

22

10

HadGEM3-GC2

FF

MPI-M

MPI-ESM-LR

51

3

MPI-ESM-LR

Anom

MPI-M

MPI-ESM-MR

11

3

MPI-ESM-MR

Anom

MRI

MRI-CGCM3

11

1

MRI-CGCM3

Anom

NOAA-GFDL

GFDL-CM2p1

52

3

GFDL-CM2p1

FF

  1. aWhether the initialisation method is full-field (FF) or anomaly (anom) is also shown. For specific details of the initialisation methodology, the reader is referred to Table 1. of ref. 36. For further details of the CMIP5 models and institutions, the reader is referred to Table 9.A.1 of ref. 37 and references therein