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Table 1.  Models used for this study and sections in which they are used.

 
Model		 Key References Flux Correction  Control Run Length [yr] Sections
1
 BMRC Power et al. 1998 heat, water  80  2a-c, 3
2
 CCCMA Flato et al. 2000, Boer et al. 2000, Flato & Boer 2000 heat, water  150  2a-c, 3
3
 CCSR Emori et al. 1999 heat, water  200  2a-c, 3
4
 CERFACS Barthelet et al. 1998a,b NONE 80  2a-c, 3
5
 CSIRO Gordon & O'Farrell 1997 heat, water, momentum  100  2a-c, 3
6
 DOE PCM Washington et al. 2000 NONE  300  2a-d, 3
7
 ECHAM1+LSG Cubasch et al. 1992, von Storch et al. 1997 heat, water, momentum  960  2d
8
 ECHAM3+LSG Cubasch et al. 1997, Voss et al. 1998 heat, water, momentum  1000  2a-d, 3
9
 ECHAM4+OPYC3 Roeckner et al. 1996a.b heat, water (annual mean)  240  2a, 2c-d, 3
10
 GFDL Manabe et al. 1991, Manabe & Stouffer 1996 heat, water  1000  2a-d, 3
11
 GFDL R30 Delworth & Knutson 2000 heat, water 300  2d
12
 GISS Russell et al. 1995, Russell and Rind 1999 NONE  98   2a-c, 3 
13
 IAP/LASG Wu et al. 1997, Zhang et al. 2000 heat, water, momentum 80  2a-c, 3
14
 LMD/IPSL Laurent et al. 1998, Leclainche et al. 2000 NONE 301  2a-d, 3*
15
 MRI Tokioka et al. 1996 heat, water 80  2a-c, 3
16
 NCAR CSM Boville & Gent 1998 NONE 300  2a-d, 3
17
 UKMO HadCM2 Johns 1996, Johns et al. 1997 heat, water 1085  2a-d, 3
18
 UKMO HadCM3 Gordon et al. 2000 NONE 400  2a-d, 3

* The model used for variability study (Section 2d) is a slight modification of the version used in other sections of this report (Dufresne et al. 2001).