Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the U . S . Northeast

1 Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the U.S. Northeast KATHARINE HAYHOE, CAMERON P. WAKE, THOMAS G. HUNTINGTON, LIFENG LUO, MARK D. SCHWARTZ, JUSTIN SHEFFIELD, ERIC WOOD, BRUCE ANDERSON, JAMES BRADBURY, ART DEGAETANO, TARA J. TROY, DAVID WOLFE 1 Dept. of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, katharine.hayhoe@ttu.edu 2 Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 3 U.S. Geological Survey, Augusta, ME 4 Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 5 Dept. of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 6 Dept. of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 7 Climate System Research Center, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 8 Northeast Regional Climate Center, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 9 Dept. Of Horticulture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

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