An intercomparison of model-simulated historical and future changes in extreme events

We discovered an error in the program that plotted the time series of the indices’ global average in Figs. 1 and 2. Rather than averaging the indices’ values over land points only, for some of the indices the global averages include ocean points as well. None of the temperature indices (left column in Figs. 1 and 2) are affected by the error, nor is the precip intensity index (fourth panel on the right hand side of the figures). The only indices’ trends affected by the correction, that we now show in two figures downloadable from http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/publications/tebaldi-extremes.html, are the remaining precipitation indices (dry days, precip >10, 5-day precip and precip >95th). However, none of the trends affected sees a qualitative change in its direction. Only the range of the y-axis is different in the new version of the figures. The correction does not change the discussion in the article, which is based on qualitative tendencies and significance of the future trends (unaffected by the revised Climatic Change (2007) 82:233–234 DOI 10.1007/s10584-007-9247-2

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