Global Climate
[in "State of the Climate in 2019"] - Overview
The assessments and analyses presented in this chapter focus predominantly on the measured differences of climate and weather observables from previous conditions, years, and decades. Many of these differences have direct impacts on people, their health, and environment, as well as the wider biosphere, which are not always easily highlighted.
For the last few State of the Climate reports, an update on the number of warmer-than average years has held no surprises, and this year is again no different. The year 2019 was among the three warmest years since records began in the mid-to-late 1800s. Only 2016, and for some datasets 2015, were warmer than 2019; all years after 2013 have been warmer than all others back to the mid-1800s. Each decade since 1980 has been successively warmer than the preceding decade, with the most recent (2010–19) being around 0.2°C warmer than the previous (2000–09).
DUNN Robert J. H;
STANITSKI Diane;
GOBRON Nadine;
WILLETT Kate M.;
2020-08-31
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
JRC120967
0003-0007 (online),
https://journals.ametsoc.org/bams/article/101/8/S9/353886/Global-Climate,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC120967,
10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0104.1 (online),
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