Evaluation of Historical Diurnal Temperature Range Trends in CMIP5 Models

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was supported by funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (Grant CE 110001028). This work was also supported by the NCI National Facility at the ANU. We also acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme's Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP, and we thank climate modeling groups for producing and making available their model output. For CMIP, the U.S. Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison provides coordinating support and led development of software infrastructure in partnership with the Global Organization for Earth System Science Portals. We thank Markus Donat and Lisa Alexander at the University of New South Wales for providing access to GHCNDEX and HadEX2 observational datasets. Finally, we thank the three reviewers for their useful comments on the manuscript.