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home ) and the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison: pcmdi3.llnl.gov/esgcet. We
acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme's Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is
responsible for CMIP, and we thank the climate modelling groups (models listed in Table 2 ) for producing and
making available their model outputs; for CMIP, the U.S. Department of Energy's PCMDI provided coordi-
nating support and led development of software infrastructure in partnership with the Global Organization for
Earth System Science Portals. The scientists involved in the generation of these data sets are sincerely
acknowledged. We thank also Prof Keith Shine for developing the zero-dimensional climate model.
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