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Figure 1: An example of the evaluation of the ability of the CMIP5 models to simulate aspects of the South Asian Monsoon.

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This work was supported by the joint NERC/MoES SAPRISE project (NE/I022841/1). A.T. was also supported by a NERC Fellowship (NE/H015655/1).

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  1. College of Engineering, Mathetmatics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK

    Mat Collins

  2. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, 110016, India

    Krishna AchutaRao

  3. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, 411008, India

    Karumuri Ashok

  4. Indian Centre for Climate and Societal Impacts Research, Ahmedabad, 380009, India

    Satyendra Bhandari & Rohit Srivastava

  5. National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Noida, 201309, India

    Ashis K. Mitra & Satya Prakash

  6. National Centre for Atmospheric Science-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6BB, UK

    Andrew Turner

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Collins, M., AchutaRao, K., Ashok, K. et al. Observational challenges in evaluating climate models. Nature Clim Change 3, 940–941 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2012

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