2023 temperatures reflect steady global warming and internal sea surface temperature variability2023 was the warmest year on record, influenced by multiple warm ocean basins. This has prompted speculation of an acceleration in surface warming, or a stronger than expected influence from loss of aerosol ...
Lost in translation: What spirituality and Einstein have to do with misunderstandings about climate change As a child growing up in the early 1990s, I remember learning in school about the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels traps heat near the Earth's surface, like...
We use monthly mean near-surface temperature from both observations and climate models. The observational data comes from ERA5 reanalysis17. We compared the observed temperatures to three climate model ensembles: all available realisations from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 62(CMIP6), the 100-...
This plot of daily sea surface temperatures shows that the global ocean from 60°S to 60°N latitude is already half a degree C warmer than it was on the same day last year, at 21.1°C. That is also the maximum recorded temperatur...
Two key climate change indicators - global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent - have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest...
Warmer ocean temperatures are causing the rapid retreat of ice shelves, leading to increased calving of icebergs into the sea. This process contributes to sea level rise and affects global ocean currents, potentially altering weather patterns worldwide. Glaciers in mountainous regions are similarly ...
Silicate weathering as an important negative feedback can regulate the Earth’s climate over time, but much debate concerns its response strength to each climatic factor and its evolution with land surface reorganisation. Such discrepancy arises from lac
abovethe1850–1900averageand2020at1.27±0.13°C. Thepastnineyears,2015–2023,willbetheninewarmestyearsonrecord. Recordmonthlyglobaltemperatureshavebeenobservedfortheocean–fromAprilthroughtoSeptember–and,star甘ngslightlylater,theland–fromJulythroughtoSeptember. Theten-yearaverage2014–2023(toOctober)global...
GMST is measured using a combination of air temperature over land, and sea surface temperature in ocean areas, typically expressed as a difference from a baseline period. 2023 was the warmest year on record. It was approximately 1.45 ± 0.12 °C warmer than the pre-industrial (1850-1900) ...
Here we provide temporally and spatially detailed high-resolution lake surface water temperatures for 92,245 lakes (36% are located within the Arctic) based on satellite remote sensing and numerical modelling. The global lake surface water temperature data suggested a mean increase of +0.24 °C...