Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow

1 Introduction Projected increases in mean annual, seasonal, and monthly temperatures in different regions across the globe due to climate change are well established with relatively strong agreement among global circulation models (Watanabe et al. 2010; Dufresne et al. 2013; Zhao et al. 2021). These projections are rapidly playing out across the globe as climate change triggers more frequent anomalous heat and drought events (Cook et al. 2022; IPCC 2023; Chen et al.