Title,"Figure 2. Precipitation Worldwide, 1901-2023",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Short title,Precipitation Worldwide,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Source,EPA's Climate Change Indicators in the United States: www.epa.gov/climate-indicators,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Data source,"Data source: NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). (2024). Extended version of GPCC dataset originally published in Blunden, J., Boyer, T., & Bartow-Gillies, E. (2023). State of the climate in 2022. <i>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society</i>, <i>104</i>(9), S1-S516. https://doi.org/10.1175/2023BAMSStateoftheClimate.1<br/>Web update: June 2024",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Short data source,"Data source: NOAA, 2024<sup><a href=""#ref2"">2</a></sup><br/>Web update: June 2024",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Units,inches,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
y-axis,Precipitation anomaly (inches),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
x-axis,Year,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023
Year interval,10,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Data,Higher than average precipitation,,,,0.134996136,,,0.405862424,,,0.259799353,0.131846528,,,,,,0.617279861,0.342476563,,,,0.233027685,,0.107830767,,,0.306649772,0.211767831,,,,0.092870129,,0.401531713,0.179484349,0.007830713,,,,0.051925225,,,,,,,,0.102318953,,0.070035471,0.700350772,,,0.218854449,0.560586917,0.85704377,1.125547852,0.084208707,,0.218460748,0.143657558,0.603106625,0.03027167,,,,0.142870156,,0.04995672,,,0.032240175,,1.344445608,1.181059693,0.974760369,,0.572397947,0.709012194,0.040507896,,0.3964136,,,0.381059261,,,,0.629484592,0.416492351,0.045626009,,,,,0.048381916,0.492476644,,0.767673643,0.961768236,1.20350065,0.092476428,,,0.239326901,,0.667279888,0.489720737,0.977122575,,1.387752718,0.965705246,0.282634011,0.74287048,0.127909518,,0.479878212,0.921217033,0.52239792,,0.611870409,,,
Data,Lower than average precipitation,,-0.375634061,-0.585870395,,-0.087444929,-0.193744199,,-0.34374428,-0.020515759,,,-0.456736467,-0.326815137,-0.45791757,-0.480358527,-0.106342577,,,-0.462641982,-0.567760149,-0.232720598,,-0.168941036,,-0.124846524,-0.190988292,,,-0.295712758,-0.426027789,-0.702405891,,-0.126027627,,,,-0.14295677,-0.042956716,-0.072877992,,-0.674059419,-0.761854742,-0.106736278,-0.500437278,-0.496500268,-0.314216705,-0.425634088,,-0.235476505,,,-0.542169584,-0.318941117,,,,,,-0.320909622,,,,,-0.156736305,-0.041775613,-1.066579316,,-0.096893753,,-0.096106351,-0.070515786,,-0.772484669,,,,-0.124059122,,,,-0.297681263,,-0.145318976,-0.298862366,,-0.096500052,-0.424452985,-1.352012541,,,,-0.469334899,-1.066973017,-0.084295321,-0.081145713,,,-0.159098511,,,,,-0.576421571,-0.298468665,,-0.409886048,,,,-0.113429195,,,,,,-0.838232736,,,,-0.353980506,,-0.314114343,-0.093248082,-1.815296256
