environment and their rela-
tionship to regional climate changes has increased greatly since the
TAR. The quality of the data sets has also improved. There is a
notable lack of geographic balance in data and literature on ob-
served changes, with marked scarcity in developing countries.
{WGII SPM}
These studies have allowed a broader and more confident as-
sessment of the relationship between observed
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