Assessment of the severe weather environment in North America simulated by a global climate model

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The authors would like to thank the National Center for Atmospheric Research for archiving, storing, and making accessible the high-resolution data from the CCSM3 and Luca Cinquini of Earth System Grid for help with accessing these data. The authors would also like to extend gratitude to Mary Haley of NCAR for access to and help in debugging the rip_cape_3d routine while still in beta testing and Melissa Bukovsky for help with learning NCL. Additional recognition is extended to Anthony Del Genio and an anonymous reviewer for their reviews of this paper. Last, but not least, the authors would like to thank M. O. Nkey for support during the writing of this paper. This research was supported by NSF SGER grant ATM-0550178.