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Updated 15 December 2006

OUR CHANGING PLANET
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
for Fiscal Year 2007

A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and
The Subcommittee on Global Change Research
A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget

Figure 42.  New York Climate and Health Project: Model Projections for the 2050s.

OCP07-Fig-42

These model projections employ the 2050 IPCC A2 emissions scenario: (a) temperature changes simulated with the Mesoscale Modeling System Generation 5 (MM5) regional model; (b) ozone changes simulated with the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system; (c) land-use changes simulated with the Slope, Land-Use Elevation, Urban, Transportation, and Hillshading (SLEUTH) model; and (d) change in ozone-related deaths. Credit: C. Rosenzweig, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (panel d reproduced with permission from Environmental Health Perspectives).

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