Global Climate. Overview (Chapter 2 of “State of the Climate in 2016”)
For yet another year in succession, 2016 was the warmest at the surface in the 150-year instrumental record with global annual anomalies between 0.45°–0.56°C above the 1981–2010 average but by a lesser margin than the previous two. The strong El Niño continued to dominate global conditions during the early part of the year, but the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) transitioned to a weak La Niña as
the year progressed. Also of note is the largest annual increase of global atmospheric CO2 ever observed in the 58-year measurement record, with an increase of 3.5 ± 0.1 ppm since 2015 to 402.9 ± 0.1 ppm.
DUNN Robert J. H;
HURST Dale F.;
GOBRON Nadine;
WILLETT Kate M.;
2018-01-18
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
JRC109245
0003-0007,
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC109245,
10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1,
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