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Summary:

These country-level climate data summaries were prepared with funding from the UNDP National Communication Suport Programme (NSCP) and the UK government Department for International Development (DfiD) in order to address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections made available through the WCRP CMIP3. A consistent approach has been applied for 52 developing countries in order to produce an 'off the shelf' analysis of climate data, and also make available the underlying data for each country for use in further research.

For more information: UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles

For each of the 52 countries, a report contains a set of maps and diagrams demonstrating the observed and projected climates of that country as country average timeseries as well as maps depicting changes on a 2.5° grid and summary tables of the data. A narrative summarises the data in the figures, and placing it in the context of the country's general climate.

A dataset containing the underlying observed and model data for that country, is made available for use in further research projects. The files are smaller and more manageable than the global fields made available by the PCMDI, and in text format which can be easily downloaded, read and manipulated.

Source: University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment. Accessed on 23 November 2009 at: http://country-profiles.geog.ox.ac.uk/.

For Morocco:

Recent Climate Trends

Temperature

• Mean annual temperature has increased by 0.9°C since 1960, an average rate of 0.20°C per decade. This increasing trend varies with season, and is only statistically significant in AMJ and SON. The rate of increase is most rapid in the hot, dry season, AMJ, at 0.34°C per decade.
• The frequency of days that are classed as ‘hot’1 has increased significantly since 1960 in all seasons except SON. The frequency of nights that are classed as ‘hot’, however, has increased significantly in all seasons.
• The frequency of ‘cold’3 days and nights has decreased significantly in all seasons.

Precipitation

• Mean annual rainfall over Morocco has not changed with any consistent trend since 1960.
• There are insufficient daily rainfall observations available from which to determine changes in the extremes indices of daily rainfall.

To access more information on Morocco: UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles - Morocco

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