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Figure 1: Comparison of Simulated Hurricane Intensities

This image shows two curves.  One curve is a histogram of hurricane
intensities for current climate conditions.  The second curve
is a histogram of intensities for warm climate (high CO2) conditions.
The warm climate curve (intensities) is shifted toward lower central
pressures (higher intensities) compared to the present climate
curve.  The caption provides details on the experiments that produced
the data.

Fig. 1. Comparison of simulated hurricane intensities for present-day (thin line) and future (thick line) climate conditions assuming an 80-year build-up of atmospheric CO2 at 1%/yr compounded. The results are aggregated from sets of experiments using nine different global climate model projections and four different versions of a high-resolution hurricane prediction model. (Sharp display version)

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