Fig. 2: Annual state variables and performance metrics for three distinct years (rows) selected from the 500-year stochastic ensemble. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: Annual state variables and performance metrics for three distinct years (rows) selected from the 500-year stochastic ensemble.

From: U.S. West Coast droughts and heat waves exacerbate pollution inequality and can evade emission control policies

Fig. 2

Top row: the year with the highest air pollution damages; middle row: the year with the lowest air pollution damages; bottom row: the year containing the day with the single highest air pollution damages. Columns 1–4 show hydrometeorological state variables, and columns 5–6 show anomalies in fossil fuel power plants’ capacity factors and county level air quality damages. While the years with the highest/lowest damages are clearly associated with extremes in annual streamflow and air temperatures, the year with the highest damage day appears unremarkable apart from elevated temperatures.

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