What Might Precipitation over the US Look Like in 2094? (IMAGE)

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What Might Precipitation over the US Look Like in 2094?

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What might precipitation over the US look like in 2094? Two Argonne researchers ran the highest-resolution climate forecast ever done for North America -- dividing the continent into squares 12 km at a side. These two sample maps show different scenarios to project how much more (green) or less (brown) it would rain in a ten-year period at the end of the century versus how much it rained in 1995-2004. (Crosshatching indicates statistically significant changes.)

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Images courtesy Jiali Wang & Rao Kotamarthi / Argonne National Laboratory.

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