An Evaluation of CMIP5 GCM Simulations over the Athabasca River Basin, Canada

Abstract Long‐term hydrological forecasting, water resources management and other climate change impacts or adaptation analysis studies on large continental river basins, for example, the Athabasca River Basin ( ARB ) in Canada, desire a reliable climatic projection. This usually relies on general circulation models ( GCM s) in the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project ( CMIP5 ). However, there is a lack of a systematic …