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Chesapeake Bay Watershed and State of Maryland Climate Projections
 

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Last changed January 10, 2008

Precipitation minus Evaporation
Download Excel File - the excel file includes both percent anomaly and absolute anomaly
Notes:

- The points represent 20 year centered averages

- error bars are based on the 25th and 75th percentile range of the model ensemble

- the percent anomalies (not shown) have the greatest reductions in summer. This is because the lowest net freshwater flux occurs during summer, so modest total changes are a large fraction of the total.

- There is a two peaked summertime distribution that we do not yet understand, but which appears to be related to the evaporation, and may represent end points between which the air is fully saturated and evaporation is reduced.