Data Visualizations

NASA | IPCC Projections of Temperature and Precipitation in the 21st Century

Climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimate global temperature and precipitation patterns will change throughout the 21st century given current rising greenhouse gas concentrations. This visualization is based on a scenario in which carbon dioxide concentrations reach 670 parts per million by 2100, up from around 400 ppm today.

Credit: NASA | IPCC Projections of Temperature and Precipitation in the 21st Century, originally published in NASA Center for Climate Simulation / Scientific Visualization Studio, 2013 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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