Modeling Global Annual Temperature Records (IMAGE)

American Geophysical Union

Modeling Global Annual Temperature Records

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Historically observed and model-simulated numbers of hot and cold global annual temperature records for 1861-2005. The number of real-world record occurrences are shown as black circles. The boxes represent the range of record numbers predicted by models with human and natural influences (red boxes) and natural influences only (orange boxes). The central lines in the boxes represent the median.

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