Fig. 3: Impact duration curves and uncertainty of extreme impacts. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Impact duration curves and uncertainty of extreme impacts.

From: Drought and climate change impacts on cooling water shortages and electricity prices in Great Britain

Fig. 3

a Probability distribution of cumulative capacity impacted during an extreme 99th percentile day (i.e. impacts are exceeded only 1% of the time). b Uncertainty across model samples on a 99th percentile day. c Duration of impact with shaded uncertainty ranges (5th–95th percentiles) across the three climate scenarios compared reveal that accumulated capacity unavailability, through time, can be substantial. d Gaussian kernel density combining data from b and c showing the bi-variate distribution for extreme impact days (x-axis) and cumulative impact duration (y-axis), clearly increasing in severity on both axes.

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