Climate of Illinois and Central United States: Comparison of Model Simulations of the Current Climate, Comparison of Model Sensitivity to Enhanced Greenhouse Gas Forcing, and Regional Climate Model Simulations

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This project was funded through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Illinois State Geological
Survey. Illinois State Water Survey Contract Report 2004-12.
Climate of Illinois and Central United States: Comparison of Model
Simulations of the Current Climate, Comparison of Model
Sensitivity to Enhanced Greenhouse Gas Forcing, and Regional
Climate Model Simulations
Kenneth E. Kunkel and Xin-Zhong Liang1
Atmospheric Environment Section
Illinois State Water Survey
1 Participating CMIP2+ modeling groups:
George Boer, Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, Victoria Canada
Byron Boville, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO USA
Curt Covey, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory,
Livermore, CA USA
Hal Gordon, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, Victoria, Australia
Stephanie Legutke, Max Planck Institute, Model and Data, Hamburg, Germany
Jerry Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO USA
Josef Oberhuber, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, Germany
Erich Roeckner, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, Germany
Ron Stouffer, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, MA USA