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Table 1 Selection of RCMs used in this study

From: Recent and projected future climatic suitability of North America for the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus

Acronym

Grid projection & Hor. resolution

Forcing by global reanalysis

Time windows

GCM forcing/future scenarios

Time windows

CRCM4.2.3

Polar-Stereographic with true resolution of 45 km at 60°N 180×172 points

ERA-40 [41]

1981 to 2004

CGCM3.1 member 4

Historical 1971 to 2000

ERA-Interim [43]

SRES A2 2011 to 2070

CRCM5*

Rotated Pole latitude-longitude at resolution of 0.44° 172×160 points

″

″

CanESM2

Historical: 1971 to 2005, RCP4.5/RCP8.5 2006 to 2070

RCP4.5

CanRCM4*

Rotated Pole latitude-longitude at resolution of 0.44° 155×130 points

″

1989 to 2010

CanESM2

″

RCP4.5

RCP8.5

HIRHAM5*

Latitude-longitude at resolution of 0.44° 130×155 points

″

″

ECEARTH

″

RCP4.5

RCP8.5

RCA4-v1*

 

″

″

″

″

RegCM3**

Transverse Mercator at resolution of 50 km 170×110 points

NCEP/DOE AMIP-II [44]

1981 to 2000

GFDL

Historical 1970 to 1999

SRES A2 2040 to 2069

ECPC**

Polar-Stereographic with true resolution of 50 km at 60°N 116×147 points

″

″

″

″

MM5I**

Lambert Conformal at resolution of 50 km 123×99 points

″

″

CCSM

″

WRF**

Lambert Conformal at resolution of 50 km 134×109 points

″

″

″

″

  1. *Simulations obtained from the CORDEX project; **Simulations obtained from NARCCAP runs.