Two extremes at the same time (IMAGE)
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the Image shows that for Central Europe, when using multiple plausible simulations from seven different climate models and assuming different precipitation trends, the frequency of compound hot-dry events varies. In a future ‘dry storyline’, these compound events occur significantly more frequently than in a future ‘wet storyline’. Maps (b) & (c) illustrate this Maps (b) & (c) illustrate this using the example of Central Europe: in the case of the ‘dry storyline’, on average across all simulations, both extremes may occur concurrently at least every four years on average, while in the case of the ‘wet storyline’, it is every ten years. In the historical time period from 1950-1980, compound hot-dry events occurred every 25 years on average.
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