Table 3.1 Statistics of rainfall over the Indian landmass
Monsoon
Post-monsoon
Annual
Seasons
JJAS
OND
Mean (mm)
858.0
119.1
1142.1
Std Dev
80.2
29.5
98.8
% Contribution to annual average
75.1
10.4
Max RF
(Year)
1011.7
(1988)
205.1
(1956)
1359.6
(1990)
Min RF
(Year)
665.2
(1972)
63.5
(2011)
922.4
(1972)
Table 3.2 List of CORDEX South Asia simulations used
CORDEX -SA RCM used
Contributing RCM
modelling centre
Driving CMIP5 model
CMIP5 modelling centre
IITM-RegCM4 ICTP, regional climate
model version 4 (Giorgie
et al. 2012)
CCCR, IITM, India
CCCma-CanESM2
Canadian Centre for Climate
Modelling and Analysis (CCCma),
Canada
NOAA-GFDL-ESM2M
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration-Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics Laboratory, USA
CNRM-CM5
Centre National de Recherches
Météorologiques, France
MPI-ESM-MR
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,
Germany
IPSL-CM5A-LR
The Institute Pierre Simon Laplace,
France
CSIRO-Mk.6
Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation,
Australia
SMHI-RCA4
Rossby Centre regional
atmospheric model
version 4 (Samuelsson
et al. 2011)
Rossby Centre, Swedish
Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute,
Sweden
ICHEC-EC-EARTH
Irish Centre for High End Computing,
European Consortium
MIROC-MIROC5
Model for Interdisciplinary Research
On Climate, Japan Agency for
Marine-Earth Science and Technology,
Japan
NCC NorESM1
Norwegian Climate Centre, Norway
MOHC-HadGEMEM2-ES Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate
Change, UK
CCCma-CanESM2
Canadian Centre for Climate
Modelling and Analysis (CCCma),
Canada
NOAA-GFDL-ESM2m
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration-Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics Laboratory, USA
CNRM-CM5
Centre National de Recherches
Météorologiques, France
MPI-CM5A-MR
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,
Germany
IPSL-CM5A-MR
The Institute Pierre Simon Laplace,
France
CSIRO-Mk.6
Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation,
Australia
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