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The Climate System Model, a coupled global climate model without ‘‘flux adjustments’’ recently developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, was used to simulate the twentieth-century climate using historical greenhouse,gas and sulfate aerosol forcing. This simulation was,extended,through the twenty-first century under two newly developed scenarios, a business-as-usual case (ACACIA-BAU, CO2 710 ppmv in 2100) and a CO2 stabilization case (STA550, CO 2 540 ppmv in 2100). Here we compare the simulated and observed twentieth-century climate, and then describe the simulated climates for the twenty-first century. The model,simulates the spatial and temporal,variations of the twentieth-century climate reasonably well. These include the rapid rise in global and zonal mean surface temperatures since the late 1970s, the precipitation increases over northern mid- and high-latitude land areas, ENSO-induced precipitation anomalies, and Pole‐ midlatitude oscillations (such as the North Atlantic oscillation) in sea level pressure fields. The model,has a cold bias (28‐68C) in surface air temperature over land, overestimates of cloudiness (by 10%‐30%) over land, and underestimates,of marine stratus clouds to the west of North and South America and Africa. The projected global surface warming,from the 1990s to the 2090s is ;1.98C under the BAU scenario and ;1.58C under the STA550 scenario. In both cases, the midstratosphere cools due to the increase in CO 2, whereas the lower stratosphere warms in response to recovery of the ozone layer. As in other coupled models, the surface warming,is largest at winter high latitudes ($5.08C from the 1990s to the 2090s) and smallest (;1.08C) over the southern oceans, and is larger over land areas than ocean areas. Globally averaged precipitation increases by ;3.5% (3.0%) from the 1990s to the 2090s in the BAU (STA550) case. In the BAU case, large precipitation increases (up to 50%) occur over northern mid- and high latitudes and over India and the Arabian Peninsula. Marked differences occur between,the BAU and STA550 regional precipitation changes resulting from inter- decadal variability. Surface evaporation increases at all latitudes except for 60 8‐908S. Water vapor from increased tropical evaporation is transported into mid- and high latitudes and returned to the surface through increased precipitation there. Changes in soil moisture content are small (within 63%). Total cloud cover changes little, although there is an upward,shift of midlevel clouds. Surface diurnal temperature range decreases by about 0.28‐ 0.58C over most land areas. The 2‐8-day synoptic storm activity decreases (by up to 10%) at low latitudes and over midlatitude oceans, but increases over Eurasia and Canada. The cores of subtropical jets move slightly up- and equatorward. Associated with reduced latitudinal temperature gradients over mid- and high latitudes, the wintertime Ferrel cell weakens (by 10%‐15%). The Hadley circulation also weakens (by ;10%), partly due to

Climates of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Simulated by the NCAR Climate System Model