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Supporting Materials

• Definition of heat wave adopted from:
• Ganguly, A.R., K. Steinhaeuser, D.J. Erickson III, M. Branstetter, E.S. Parish, N. Singh,
  J.B. Drake and L. Buja (2009), Higher trends but larger uncertainty and geographic
  variability in 21st century temperature and heat waves, Proceedings of the National
  Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, in Press.
• Meehl, G.A. and C. Tebaldi (2004), More intense, more frequent, and longer lasting
  heat waves in the 21st century, Science, 305, 994-997.

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