State of the Climate in 2020

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Blunden, J., Boyer, T., Grooss, Jens-Uwe, Müller, Rolf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ASM 2021
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550; ice core
• Online Access: https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/894657; https://juser.fz-juelich.de/search?p=id:%22FZJ-2021-03342%22

In 2020, the dominant greenhouse gases stored in Earth’s atmosphere continued to increase. The annual global average carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration at Earth’s surface was 412.5 ± 0.1 ppm, an increase of 2.5 ± 0.1 ppm over 2019, and the high-est in the modern instrumental record and in ice core r...