Fig. 1: Annual mean precipitation area between 50 °S and 50 °N. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 1: Annual mean precipitation area between 50 °S and 50 °N.

From: CMIP6 models project a shrinking precipitation area

Fig. 1

The precipitation area is shown for 27 CMIP6 models following SSP5-8.5, the ERA5, ERA-20C and NCEP1 reanalysis. The CMIP6 models have been sorted by increasing mean zonal resolution, where blue denotes the lowest and red the highest spatial resolution. The numbers to the right of the coloured lines refer to the single models where the ordinate indicates the precipitation area in the last year of the corresponding simulation. a shows the precipitation area and (b) the 30-year running mean deviations (in percentage points) from the models' precipitation area in the reference period (1991–2020, 1981–2010 for ERA-20C). The box-plot on the right in (b) shows the inter-quartile (box) and 0.05–0.95 quantile range (dotted line) of the CMIP6 model deviations for the period 2071-2100.

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