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Updated 12 October, 2003

US National Assessment of
the Potential Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change
Model Validation:
20th Century Time Series for the US

 

The following figures are 10-year running means from 1900 to 2000 of the observations and the CGCM1 and HadCM2 models..  The temperature units are in degree F.  Mean temperature is the actual mean temperature from the models, rather than the mean of the minimum and maximum temperatures.  The precipitation units are inches per year.  The bottom four figures are the anomaly time series (from the decade around 1905).


Mean Temperature

Precipitation
 
 

Maximum Temperature

 

Anomalies with respect to 1961-1990

Mean Temperature

Minimum Temperature

Maximum Temperature
 
 



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