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12 October, 2003
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The following figures are from the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) CSM Business-as-Usual
and Stabilization scenarios. Temperature is mean screen temperature
and is mapped as a delta. Precipitation is mapped as percent difference,
which is (future-modern)/modernx100. The differences between
the two scenarios are plotted similarly. The time series, which
have been filtered to eliminate less than 4 year variations, show that
the large precipitation increase in the southwest is a factor of decadal
variance, and not of any larger trend of increasing precipitation in that
region. Maps were created by Aiguo Dai at NCAR.
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