Headline Indicators for Global Climate Monitoring
International audience The World Meteorological Organization has developed a set of headline indicators for global climate monitoring. These seven indicators are a subset of the existing set of essential climate variables (ECVs) established by the Global Climate Observing System and are intended to...
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:insu-03671357v1 2023-12-17T10:19:33+01:00 Headline Indicators for Global Climate Monitoring Trewin, Blair Cazenave, Anny Howell, Stephen Huss, Matthias Isensee, Kirsten Palmer, Matthew D. Tarasova, Oksana Vermeulen, Alex Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales (LEGOS) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2021 https://insu.hal.science/insu-03671357 https://insu.hal.science/insu-03671357/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-03671357/file/%5B15200477%20-%20Bulletin%20of%20the%20American%20Meteorological%20Society%5D%20Headline%20Indicators%20for%20Global%20Climate%20Monitoring.pdf https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0196.1 en eng HAL CCSD American Meteorological Society info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0196.1 insu-03671357 https://insu.hal.science/insu-03671357 https://insu.hal.science/insu-03671357/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-03671357/file/%5B15200477%20-%20Bulletin%20of%20the%20American%20Meteorological%20Society%5D%20Headline%20Indicators%20for%20Global%20Climate%20Monitoring.pdf BIBCODE: 2021BAMS.102E.20T doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0196.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0003-0007 EISSN: 1520-0477 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society https://insu.hal.science/insu-03671357 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2021, 102, pp.E20-E37. ⟨10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0196.1⟩ [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0196.1 2023-11-22T17:31:27Z International audience The World Meteorological Organization has developed a set of headline indicators for global climate monitoring. These seven indicators are a subset of the existing set of essential climate variables (ECVs) established by the Global Climate Observing System and are intended to provide the most essential parameters representing the state of the climate system. These indicators include global mean surface temperature, global ocean heat content, state of ocean acidification, glacier mass balance, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent, global CO 2 mole fraction, and global mean sea level. This paper describes how well each of these indicators are currently monitored, including the number and quality of the underlying datasets; the health of those datasets; observation systems used to estimate each indicator; the timeliness of information; and how well recent values can be linked to preindustrial conditions. These aspects vary widely between indicators. While global mean surface temperature is available in close to real time and changes from preindustrial levels can be determined with relatively low uncertainty, this is not the case for many other indicators. Some indicators (e.g., sea ice extent) are largely dependent on satellite data only available in the last 40 years, while some (e.g., ocean acidification) have limited underlying observational bases, and others (e.g., glacial mass balance) with data only available a year or more in arrears. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Ocean acidification Sea ice Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Antarctic Arctic Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102 1 E20 E37 |
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International audience The World Meteorological Organization has developed a set of headline indicators for global climate monitoring. These seven indicators are a subset of the existing set of essential climate variables (ECVs) established by the Global Climate Observing System and are intended to provide the most essential parameters representing the state of the climate system. These indicators include global mean surface temperature, global ocean heat content, state of ocean acidification, glacier mass balance, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent, global CO 2 mole fraction, and global mean sea level. This paper describes how well each of these indicators are currently monitored, including the number and quality of the underlying datasets; the health of those datasets; observation systems used to estimate each indicator; the timeliness of information; and how well recent values can be linked to preindustrial conditions. These aspects vary widely between indicators. While global mean surface temperature is available in close to real time and changes from preindustrial levels can be determined with relatively low uncertainty, this is not the case for many other indicators. Some indicators (e.g., sea ice extent) are largely dependent on satellite data only available in the last 40 years, while some (e.g., ocean acidification) have limited underlying observational bases, and others (e.g., glacial mass balance) with data only available a year or more in arrears. |
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Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales (LEGOS) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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