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SUBMITTER: Hansen J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3443154 | biostudies-other | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120806 37
"Climate dice," describing the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons, have become more and more "loaded" in the past 30 y, coincident with rapid global warming. The distribution of seasonal mean temperature anomalies has shifted toward higher temperatures and the range of anomalies has increased. An important change is the emergence of a category of summertime extremely hot outliers, more than three standard deviations (3σ) warmer than the climatology of the 1951-1980 base period. This hot ex ...[more]