Continuar a ler em Hell and High Water hits Georgia « Climate Progress. Um excerto para enquadrar o gráfico final:
"[...] In fact, the last few decades have seen rising extreme precipitation over the United States in the historical record, according to NCDC’s Climate Extremes Index (CEI): An increasing trend in the area experiencing much above-normal proportion of heavy daily precipitation is observed from about 1950 to the present. Here is a plot of the percentage of this country (times two) with much greater than normal proportion of precipitation derived from extreme 1-day precipitation events (where extreme equals the highest tenth percentile of deluges, click to enlarge):
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