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display_name: "Chapter 3: Models, Scenarios, and Projections of Climate Change and Socioeconomic Change (in 'Climate Change Global Food Security and the U.S. Food System')"
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  - display_name: '3.10: Global average temperature change relative to 1986–2005 baseline'
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  - display_name: '3.11: Projected changes in global surface temperature'
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  - display_name: '3.12: Projected changes in global precipitation'
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    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/models-scenarios-projections-climate-change-socioeconomic-change/figure/projected-changes-global-precipitation
  - display_name: '3.13: Projected changes in precipitation intensity'
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  - display_name: '3.14: Projected changes in soil moisture'
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  - display_name: '3.15: Projected changes in growing season length'
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    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/models-scenarios-projections-climate-change-socioeconomic-change/figure/projected-changes-growing-season-length
  - display_name: '3.16: Projected changes in frost days'
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  - display_name: '3.17: Projected changes in annual maximum number of consecutive dry days'
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  - display_name: '3.18: Projected changes in annual number of very hot days'
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    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/models-scenarios-projections-climate-change-socioeconomic-change/figure/projected-changes-annual-number-hot-days
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identifier: models-scenarios-projections-climate-change-socioeconomic-change
number: 3
report_identifier: usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015
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title: 'Models, Scenarios, and Projections of Climate Change and Socioeconomic Change'
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