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Climate Change Assessment for Water Resources Region 03 <br />�t <br />0,0 <br />�01�11�Ap <br />� w <br />!� uu <br />A9, air. <br />Tlr JJV � ,�, �✓ %r aryl iNm „� "" "J d;�' <br />r <br />i <br />/ hvMl 'ID'pw , M!f "% rr;N TArypk'.R^, m Ara Diu <br />N"""Aft mi W'N Dam di ➢AA'M <br />WADra[Jamf rAM ""Ot �rM4,s YX <br />South Atlantic -Gulf <br />Figure 3.9. Projected changes in seasonal and annual precipitation in Alabama, baseline <br />period, 1988 — 2008 and future period, 2016 — 2040. (Wang et al., 2013b) <br />Figure 3.10. Projected changes in annual precipitation, North Carolina, 1995 — 2100. <br />(Qi et al., 2009). <br />Future projections of extreme events, including storm events and droughts, are the subject of <br />studies by Tebaldi et al. (2006), Wang and Zhang (2008), Gao et al. (2012), and Wang et al. <br />(2013a). The first authors, as part of a global study, compared an ensemble of GCM projections <br />for the southeast U.S. and a 2090 planning horizon with historical baseline data (1980 — 1999). <br />They report small increases in the number of high (> 10 mm) precipitation days for the region, <br />the number of storm events greater than the 95I' percentile of the historical record, and the daily <br />precipitation intensity index (annual total precipitation divided by number of wet days). In other <br />USACE Institute for Water Resources 27 January 9, 2015 <br />