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Climate Change Assessment for Water Resources Region 03 <br />a) Annual average temperature <br />76 <br />P!I <br />Miu <br />a °t') 191W RIM, NOW 117 r, 1 f <br />'0aei6U71p' <br />South Atlantic -Gulf <br />b) Extreme heat days <br />Projected Chan worriber d Dales Over 95T <br />P170O W HWOO( s ("'Wu; <br />K'Awjp m Pdrawwwmm°t* O"'t, <br />0 way 213 '30, 90, <br />k' sta1PPo°hi4"dO MAWOO if M71 0001, <br />ft'nowoo POP* <br />77 Irb P 46 '.OIP M <br />Figure 3.6. GCM projections of temperature change in the southeast USA. The South <br />Atlantic -Gulf Region is within the black oval (Carter et al., 2014). <br />Projected Cl,wrige in Nurnber of Niglits Belo 32" <br />ra t o [Moron [Moronce rron,i Hiss ud o f Ortiato <br />40 Ml 12 0 <br />Figure 3.7. GCM projections of change in overnight minimum temperatures in the southeast <br />USA. The South Atlantic -Gulf Region is within the black oval (Carter et al., 2014). <br />Ivey point: Strong consensus exiA5 in the literature that projected temperature in the study <br />region show a sharp increasing trend over the next century. <br />3.2. Precipitation <br />In line with projections for the rest of the country, projections of future changes in precipitation <br />in the South Atlantic -Gulf Region are variable and generally lacking in consensus among studies <br />or across models. The Liu et al. study (2013), described above, quantified significant increases in <br />winter and spring precipitation associated with a 2055 planning horizon, relative to a recent <br />historical baseline (1971 — 2000, centered around 1985), for the South Atlantic Region (Figure <br />USACE Institute for Water Resources 25 January 9, 2015 <br />