Current Climate Conditions

Global Climate Monitor: Global Climate Monitoring of the Climate System allows a clear overview of how the system is currently behaving in response to global warming and natural variation. Climate change indicators: Global Mean Temperature (GMT); Hemispheric Temperature Variance; Greenhouse gases; Arctic, Antarctic Ice Extent and Volume; Ocean Oscillations; Sea Level Rise (SLR); Solar Cycle Data; Sea Surface Temperatures and Anomalies; Global Fire Activity, Drought.
Contents
  1. TEMPERATURE
    1. Land/Ocean and Hemisphere Global Trends
      1. Global Mean Temperature (GMT) [updates annually]
      2. Northern Hemisphere (NH), Southern (SH) Temperature Trends (GMT) [updates annually]
  2. GREENHOUSE GASES
    1. Carbon Dioxide Methane, Nitrous Oxide, CFC’s*
      1. Annual Greenhouse Gas Index [suspect annual update]
      2. Recent Mauna Loa CO2 [updates monthly]
      3. Global CO2 Emissions from Fossil-Fuel Burning, Cement Manufacture, and Gas Flaring: 1752-2006 [No auto update]
  3. Arctic
    1. Arctic, Ice & Snow Trends
      1. Arctic Ice Extent (areas with at least 15% ice coverage) [updates daily]
      2. Arctic Ice Extent [updates monthly]
      3. Spring Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent [updates annually]
      4. Glacier Ice Mass Loss (summary 2009) [no auto update at this time]
      5. Arctic Oscillation [updates monthly]
  4. Antarctic, Ice & Snow Trends
      1. Antarctic Ice Extent Increase [updates monthly]
      2. Antarctic Ice Extent [updates daily]
  5. OCEANS
    1. Sea Level Rise (SLR)
      1. Multivariate ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) Index (MEI) [updates montlhy]
      2. Pacific Decadal Oscillation [updates monthly]
      3. Sea Surface Temperature (Global Monsoon Product) [Updates Weekly]
      4. Sea Surface Temperature [Updates Daily]
      5. Sea Surface Height (US Navy) [Updates Daily]
  6. SOLAR
    1. Sunspots, Monthly Values, 10.7cm Radio Flux
      1. Latest Sunspot Solar Image [updates daily]
      2. Sunspots (Smoothed with Monthly Values) [updates daily]
  7. LAND
    1. Global Fire Maps 24 Hour/10 Day & Drought Monitoring
      1. 10 Day Segments [updates periodically 10-day intervals]
      2. Global Drought Monitoring

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Climate affects weather. The global climate monitor shows current climate conditions in the context of current weather events. Seeing the global picture aids in how climate is perceived in the context of these weather events. The connections between natural variation combined with anthropogenic (human-caused) climate forcing allows rapid assimilation of the scope and impacts of the climate weather inter-dynamics.

TEMPERATURE

Land/Ocean and Hemisphere Global Trends

Global Mean Temperature (GMT) [updates annually]

 

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.gif

Source: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/

Graph: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.gif

Northern Hemisphere (NH), Southern (SH) Temperature Trends (GMT) [updates annually]

 

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A3.gif

Source: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/

Graph: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A3.gif

GREENHOUSE GASES

Carbon Dioxide Methane, Nitrous Oxide, CFC’s*

*Chlorofluorocarbons are Industrially produced High GWP (Global Warming Potential Gases)

Annual Greenhouse Gas Index [suspect annual update]

thermometer

Source: www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/

Recent Mauna Loa CO2 [updates monthly]

CO2 Trend for Mauna Loa

Source: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

 PDF Version

 

Global CO2 Emissions from Fossil-Fuel Burning, Cement Manufacture, and Gas Flaring: 1752-2006 [No auto update]

Figure 2: Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, cement manufacture, and gas flaring, 1751-2006. This graph shows combined emissions from all countries from 1751 to 2002, showing a sharp increase since the late 1800s.

Source: https://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/globalghg.html

Arctic

Arctic, Ice & Snow Trends

Arctic Ice Extent (areas with at least 15% ice coverage) [updates daily]

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png

Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center

Graph: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png

Arctic Ice Extent [updates monthly]

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/n_plot_hires.png

Source: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

 

Spring Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent [updates annually]

Spring Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent

Source: https://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/

Image: Spring Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent

Glacier Ice Mass Loss (summary 2009) [no auto update at this time]

Mean cumulative mass balance of all reported glaciers (black line) and the reference glaciers (red line).pdf

https://wgms.ch/global-glacier-state/

Source: https://wgms.ch

Arctic Oscillation [updates monthly]

https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/teleconnections/ao-5-pg.gif

Source: National Climate Data Center

Image: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/teleconnections/ao-5-pg.gif

Antarctic, Ice & Snow Trends

Antarctic Ice Extent Increase [updates monthly]

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/s_plot_hires.png

Source: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

Antarctic Ice Extent [updates daily]

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png

Source: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

OCEANS

Sea Level Rise (SLR)

Topex, Jason-1, Jason-2

Source: https://sealevel.colorado.edu/

 

Multivariate ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) Index (MEI) [updates montlhy]

NOAA/ESRL Multivariate ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) Index (MEI)

Source: NOAA/ESRL (Earth System Research Laboratory)

Pacific Decadal Oscillation [updates monthly]

Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Source: https://www.esr.org/pdo_index.html

Sea Surface Temperature (Global Monsoon Product) [Updates Weekly]

1-Week Sea Surface Temperature

Source: https://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/Global-Monsoon.shtml

Sea Surface Temperature [Updates Daily]

https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/oper/global_sst_oper0.png

Source: https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/oper/Welcome.html

Image: https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/oper/global_sst_oper0.png

Sea Surface Height (US Navy) [Updates Daily]

Source: https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/projects.php

Image: https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_nlom32/

SOLAR

Sunspots, Monthly Values, 10.7cm Radio Flux

Latest Sunspot Solar Image [updates daily]

Latest Sunspot Solar Image

Source: https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html

Image: https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mdi_igr/512/

Sunspots (Smoothed with Monthly Values) [updates daily]

 

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif

Source: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/

Image: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif

LAND

Global Fire Maps 24 Hour/10 Day & Drought Monitoring

10 Day Segments [updates periodically 10-day intervals]

Image updates approximately every 10 days and represents the previous 10 days (approximately) from the extracted data from the MODIS Rapid Response System Global Fire Maps:

https://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/firemaps/very_small_current_firemap.jpg

Static links for latest firemaps: Dates 600×300 2048×1024 4096×2048 8192×4096

Source: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response.

Global Drought Monitoring

 

3 month average (data updated on the 16th of each month):

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

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