## B4 CCMVal2

For the stratospheric sink, transient response of the age of air (Sect. 2.6.1): AMTRAC3, CAM3.5, CMAM, Niwa-SOCOL, SOCOL, ULAQ and UMUKCA-UCAM.

For the stratospheric ozone, transient response to chlorine and climate change (Sect. 2.8.2): AMTRAC3, CCSR-NIES, CMAM, CNRM-ACM, LMDZrepro, MRI, Niwa-SOCOL, SOCOL, ULAQ, UMSLIMCAT and UMUKCA-UCAM.

## B5 ACCMIP

For the tropospheric ozone, transient response to precursors emissions (Sect. 2.8.1): CICERO-OsloCTM2, NCAR-CAM3.5, STOC-HadAM3 and UM-CAM.

For the tropospheric ozone, transient response to climate change (Sect. 2.8.1): CESM-CAM-superfast, GFDL-AM3, GISS-E2-R, MIROC-CHEM, MOCAGE, NCAR-CAM3.5, STOC-HadAM3 and UM-CAM.

For the atmospheric burden of sulfate, primary organic and black carbon aerosols (Sect. 2.9.1): GISS-E2-R.

For the atmospheric burden of secondary organic aerosols (Sect. 2.9.1): GISS-E2-R.

For the indirect effect of aerosols (Sect. 2.9.2): GFDL-AM3, GISS-E2-R, HadGEM2, MIROC-CHEM and NCAR-CAM5.1.
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*Acknowledgement.* First of all, we thank all the modeling team that produced the data we processed to build OSCAR. We also thank those who shared data or info from their model or study: V. K. Arora, P. Cadule, A. R. Douglass, T. Fu, W. Fu, C. D. Jones, J.-F. Lamarque, Y. Lee, S. Levis, K. Lindsay, U. Lohmann, J. R. Melton, V. Naik, J. Pongratz, J. T. Randerson, B. Ringeval, L. Rotstayn, X. Shi, D. T. Shindell, S. Sitch, B. D. Stocker, J. Tjiputra, N. Viovy, S. Watanabe, and H. Yu. Development of versions 2.0 and 2.1 was part of the ACACCYA project funded by the GIS Climat-Environnement-Société. Development of version 2.2 was supported by the European Research Council Synergy project IMBALANCE-P (grant ERC-2013-SyG-610028). Thomas Gasser also acknowledges support from the Research Council of Norway with a visiting researcher grant (#249972) during the writing of this paper. Download and processing of CMIP5 data was made on the IPSL Prodiguer-Ciclad facility which is supported by CNRS, UPMC, and Labex L-IPSL, and funded by the ANR (grant #ANR-10-LABX-0018) and the European FP7 IS-ENES2 project (grant #312979). Download of ACCMIP and CCMVal2 data was made on the BADC facility which is part of the NERC-NCAS.

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