Figure 3
From: Precipitation regime change in Western North America: The role of Atmospheric Rivers

Coefficient of variation (i.e. variance normalized by the mean) of de-trended* annual total precipitation during historical (a) and future (b) time periods in the Real-5 LOCA-downscaled GCM ensemble average, and the difference (c). *150-year polynomial trend was previously removed from the precipitation data (see Section 5f).