NMME Forecasts March 2012

Figure 3.6

National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center

This figure appears in chapter 3 of the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Global Change Research Program for Fiscal Year 2014 report.

A suite of forecasts of air temperature ~6.5 feet (2 meters) above the ground, initialized in November 2011, were able to effectively predict March 2012 conditions. Red indicates higher temperatures and blue indicates lower temperatures relative to historical averages from 1982 to 2010. (Source: NMME)

When citing this figure, please reference North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME), initialized in November 2011 http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/NMME/.

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The time range for this figure is March 01, 2012 (00:00 AM) to March 31, 2012 (23:59 PM).

The spatial range for this figure is 10° to 70° latitude, and -170° to -60° longitude.

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