Climate of Illinois and Central United States: Comparison of Model Simulations of the Current Climate, Comparison of Model Sensitivity to Enhanced Greenhouse Gas Forcing, and Regional Climate Model Simulations

........................................................................................... 3 Introduction ....................................................................................... 4 Background ....................................................................................... 5 Data ................................................................................................ 5 Results ............................................................................................. 7 Discussion ......................................................................................... 18 Conclusions ....................................................................................... 22 Future Work ....................................................................................... 23 Acknowledgements ............................................................................... 23 References .......................................................................................... 23 Table 1 .............................................................................................. 25 Table 2 .............................................................................................. 27 Figures .............................................................................................. 28