Precipitation

Precipitation

Patterns of changes in precipitation over the globe show much less spatial coherence, as shown in Figure 10 for DJF for the same two models. Reasonable agreement is shown between models in Africa and mid and northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. This agreement may be misleading, however, because comparison with a third model (Canadian Climate Centre model, not shown) does not confirm the large-scale patterns shown in the accompanying graphs. Maps for JJA (Figure 11) also have some areas of agreement and large areas of disagreement.

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