sed of downscaled climate scenarios for the globe that are derived from the General Circulation Model <acronym>GCM</acronym> runs conducted under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 <acronym>CMIP5</acronym> (Taylor et al. 2012) and across two of the four greenhouse gas emissions scenarios known as Representative Concentration Pathways <acronym>RCPs</acronym> (Meinshausen et al. 2011). The <acronym>CMIP5</acronym> <acronym>GCM</acronym> runs were developed in support of the Fifth Assessment Rep