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Principal components of climate variation in the Desert Southwest (ver. 2.0, September 2019) Five principal components are used to represent the climate variation in an original set of 12 climate variables reflecting precipitation and temperature gradients. The dataset provides coverage for four regions (the Sonoran Desert, Mojave Desert, Colorado Plateau, and Southern Great Basin) and three time periods including current climate (defined as the 1980-2010 normal period) and future climate (2010-2040 and 2040-2070 normal periods) under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 emission scenarios. Climate variables were chosen based on their known influence on local adaptation in plants, and include: mean annual temperature, summer maximum temperature, winter minimum temperature, annual temperature range, temperature seasonality... Categories: Data Release - Revised; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, All tags... Mojave Desert, Nevada, New Mexico, Sonoran Desert, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, atmospheric and climatic processes, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, geospatial analysis, precipitation, Fewer tags