Figure 10.4

U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service
Prasanna H. Gowda

This figure appears in chapter 10 of the Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: The Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II report.

The figure shows the percent of land area in the contiguous 48 states experiencing extreme one-day precipitation events between 1910 and 2017. These extreme events pose erosion and water quality risks that have increased in recent decades. The bars represent individual years, and the orange line is a nine-year weighted average. Source: adapted from EPA 2016.909a0b17-06fc-4995-a5b2-d837cabc4b6d

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This figure was created on September 14, 2017.

This figure was submitted on November 23, 2018.

References :

• webpage Climate Change Indicators: Heavy Precipitation (909a0b17)

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