This chapter summarizes the scope of what is known and not known about climate in the Southwestern United States. There is now more evidence and more agreement among climate scientists about the physical climate and related impacts in the Southwest compared with that represented in the 2009 National Climate Assessment (Karl, Melillo, and Peterson 2009). However, there remain uncertainties about the climate system, the complexities within climate models, the related impacts to the biophysical environment, and the use of climate information in decision making.
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Averyt, K., Brekke, L. D., Busch, D. E., Kaatz, L., Welling, L., Hartge, E. H., & Iseman, T. (2013). Moving forward with imperfect information. In Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States: A Report Prepared for the National Climate Assessment (pp. 436–461). Island Press-Center for Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-484-0_19
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