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Page 1: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Global Climate is Changing Now

Page 2: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast

Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation

Observed U.S. Flooding

Page 3: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Tropical Storms, Coastal & Inland Flooding

Page 4: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Oceanography & Dynamic Sea-Level

Yin et al. Nature Geosci. 2009

Change in dynamic sea-level

Dynamic sea-level

Page 5: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Coastal Ocean Warming (2011-2012)

Chen et al. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans (2013)

Page 6: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Ocean Acidification

Feely et al. Oceanography 2009

Page 7: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Coastal Water Quality & Acidification

Doney et al. PNAS 2007; Doney Science 2010; Kelly et al. Science 2011

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Extra Slides

Page 9: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Climate Change & the Ocean

“Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment…”Revelle and Suess, Tellus, 1957

Page 10: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Observed U.S. Precipitation Change

Page 11: Global Climate is Changing Now. More Intense Precipitation Events & Flooding in Northeast Observed Change in Very Heavy Precipitation Observed U.S. Flooding

Observed U.S. Temperature Change

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Third National Climate Assessment

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov