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=== 1.2.2 Global versus Regional and Seasonal Warming ===

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Warming is not observed or expected to be spatially or seasonally uniform (Collins et al., 2013) <sup>[[#fn:r103|103]]</sup> . A 1.5°C increase in GMST will be associated with warming substantially greater than 1.5°C in many land regions, and less than 1.5°C in most ocean regions. This is illustrated by Figure 1.3, which shows an estimate of the observed change in annual and seasonal average temperatures between the 1850–1900 pre-industrial reference period and the decade 2006–2015 in the Cowtan-Way dataset. These regional changes are associated with an observed GMST increase of 0.91°C in the dataset shown here, or 0.87°C in the four-dataset average (Table 1.1). This observed pattern reflects an on-going transient warming: features such as enhanced warming over land may be less pronounced, but still present, in equilibrium (Collins et al., 2013) <sup>[[#fn:r104|104]]</sup> . This figure illustrates the magnitude of spatial and seasonal differences, with many locations, particularly in Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude winter (December–February), already experiencing regional warming more than double the global average. Individual seasons may be substantially warmer, or cooler, than these expected changes in the long-term average.

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Regional warming for the 2006–2015 decade relative to 1850–1900 for the annual mean (top), the average of December, January, and February (bottom left) and for June, July, and August (bottom right). Warming is evaluated by regressing regional changes in the Cowtan and Way (2014) <sup>[[#fn:r105|105]]</sup> dataset onto the total (combined human and natural) externally forced warming (yellow line in Figure 1.2). See Supplementary Material 1.SM for further details and versions using alternative datasets. The definition of regions (green boxes and labels in top panel) is adopted from the AR5 (Christensen et al., 2013) <sup>[[#fn:r106|106]]</sup> .

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