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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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11The Fifth Revolution
the average of these predictions. Again, the black line represents the observed
surface temperature. Note that these values are not the actual temperatures
but the departure from the average temperature over the period 1910 to 1950.
Perhaps the most difcult thing for climate models to predict is precipi-
tation. Figure 1.4 shows global precipitation distribution as observed and
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FIGURE 1.4
Annual averaged precipitation in centimeters per year, observed (a) and model predicted
(b), based on a multi-model mea
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