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Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), a set of four new pathways developed for the climate modeling community as a basis for long-term and near-term modeling experiments. The four RCPs together span the range of year 2100 radiative forcing values found in the open literature, i.e. from 2.6 to 8.5 W/m2 . The RCPs are the product of an innovative collaboration between integrated assessment modelers, climate modelers, terrestrial ecosystem modelers and emission inventory experts.The resulting product forms a comprehensive data set with high spatial and sectoral resolutions for the period extending to 2100.

Table 1 Overview of representative concentration pathways (RCPs)

RCP8.5Rising radiative forcing pathway leading to 8.5 W/m2 (~1370 ppm CO2 eq) by 2100.
RCP6.0Stabilization without overshoot pathway to 6 W/m2 (~850 ppm CO2 eq) at stabilization after 2100
RCP4.5Stabilization without overshoot pathway to 4.5 W/m2 (~650 ppm CO2 eq) at stabilization after 2100
RCP2.6Peak in radiative forcing at ~3 W/m2 (~490 ppm CO2 eq) before 2100 and then decline (the selected pathway declines to 2.6 W/m2 by 2100).

Reference
The Representative Concentration Pathways: An Overview. Climatic Change, 109 (1-2), 5-31.

The following is a list of the models presented in the TCCIP. This list is extracted from the information provided by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project  (CMIP5) Climate Model website.

ACCESS1.0 1.241X1.875 CSIRO-BOM Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator 1.0
ACCESS1.3 1.241X1.875 CSIRO-BOM Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator 1.3
BCC-CSM1.1 2.813X2.813 BCC Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model version 1.1, China
BCC-CSM1.1m 1.125X1.125 BCC Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model version 1.1, China, high resolution
BNU-ESM 2.813X2.813 BNU College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Chian, Beijing Normal University Eath System Model
CCSM4 0.938X1.250 NCAR NCAR Community Climate System Model version 4.0
CESM1-BGC 0.938X1.250 NSF-DOE-NCAR NCAR Community Earth System Model version 1 with carbon cycle
CESM1-CAM5 0.938X1.250 NSF-DOE-NCAR Coupled simulations from CESM1 using the atmosphere model of Community Atmosphere Model version 5
CESM1-CAM5-1-FV2 1.875X2.500 NSF-DOE-NCAR CESM1-CAM5.1-Finite volume 2
CMCC-CESM 3.750X3.750 CMCC Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per I Cambiamenti Climatici(CMCC) Carbon Earth System Model
CMCC-CM 0.750X0.750 CMCC Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per I Cambiamenti Climatici Climate Model
CMCC-CMS 1.875X1.875 CMCC Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per I Cambiamenti Climatici, Climate Model with a resolved Stratosphere
CNRM-CM5 1.406X1.406 CNRM-CERFACS Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques(CNRM) Earth System Model version 5, France
CSIRO-Mk3.6.0 1.875X1.875 CSIRO-QCCCE CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Australia, Mk3.6 Model
CanESM2 2.813X2.813 CCCma Canadian Earth System Model version 2
EC-EARTH 1.125X1.125 ICHEC European Earth System Model
FGOALS-g2 3.000X2.813 LASG-CESS Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model, Grid-point Version 2, China
FIO-ESM 2.813X2.813 FIO The First Institution of Oceanography(FIO) Earth System Model, China
GFDL-CM3 2.000X2.500 NOAA-GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Coupled Model, version 3
GFDL-ESM2G 2.000X2.500 NOAA-GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Earth System Model couple TOPAZ ocean model
GFDL-ESM2M 2.000X2.500 NOAA-GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Earth System Model couple MOM4 ocean model
GISS-E2-H 2.000X2.500 NASA-GISS NASA GISS ModelE version 2, HYCOM ocean model
GISS-E2-H-CC 2.000X2.500 NASA-GISS NASA GISS-E2-H with interactive terrestrial carbon cycle and oceanic bio-geochemistry
GISS-E2-R 2.000X2.500 NASA-GISS NASA GISS ModelE version 2, Russell ocean model
GISS-E2-R-CC 2.000X2.500 NASA-GISS NASA GISS-E2-R with interactive terrestrial carbon cycle and oceanic bio-geochemistry
HadGEM2-AO 1.241X1.875 NIMR-KMA Hadley Global Environment Model 2, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, South Korea
HadGEM2-CC 1.241X1.875 MOHC Met Office Hadley Centre, Hadley Global Environment Model 2 - Carbon Cycle
HadGEM2-ES 1.241X1.875 MOHC Met Office Hadley Centre, Hadley Global Environment Model 2 - Earth System
INM-CM4 1.500X2.000 INM Institute for Numerical Mathematics, Russia, INMCM4.0 Model
IPSL-CM5A-LR 1.875X3.750 IPSL Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, France, with LMDZ4 atmosphere model
IPSL-CM5A-MR 1.259X2.500 IPSL IPSL-CM4A with medium resolution
IPSL-CM5B-LR 1.875X3.750 IPSL Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, France, with LMDZ5 atmosphere model
MIROC5 1.406X1.406 MIROC CCSR/NIES/FRCGC, Japan, MIROC Model V5
MIROC-ESM 2.813X2.813 MIROC CCSR/NIES/FRCGC, MIROC, Japan, Earth System Model
MIROC-ESM-CHEM 2.813X2.813 MIROC CCSR/NIES/FRCGC, MIROC, Japan Earth System Model with Chemistry
MPI-ESM-LR 1.875X1.875 MPI-M Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany, Earth System Model- low resolution grid
MPI-ESM-MR 1.875X1.875 MPI-M Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany, Earth System Model-medium resolution grid
MRI-CGCM3 1.125X1.125 MRI Meteorological Research Institute, Japan, CGCM3
MRI-ESM1 1.125X1.125 MRI Meteorological Research Institute, Japan, Earth System Model version 1
NorESM1-M 1.875X2.500 NCC Norwegian Earth System Model 1 - medium resolution
NorESM1-ME 1.875X2.500 NCC Norwegian Earth System Model 1 - medium resolution with capability to be fully emission driven

1. Temperature(℃) ：Actual change value between the future climate to a baseline time period (1986-2005)

2. Precipitaion(%) ：Percentgae of change between the future climate to a baseline time period (1986-2005)

3. TCCIP provide statistical downscaled projection data.

4. Statistical downscale approch from Wood et al. (2002 2004) and Maurer (2007)