attachment
Monthly reviews from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) verify an uncommon temperature development that started in mid-2023, the warmest 12 months on document.
The WMO’s Global Climate Status Report 2023, to be launched on March 19, will element final 12 months’s key local weather change indicators and impacts.
The month as an entire was 1.77C hotter than the estimated February common for the pre-industrial reference interval 1850-1900, based on the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ Copernicus Climate Change Service.
According to the report, the worldwide common sea floor temperature from 60°S to 60°N in February was 21.06°C, the very best for any month within the ERA5 dataset, and the earlier document set in August 2023 (20.98°C). ) exceeded.
According to the ERA5 dataset, the each day common sea floor temperature reached an absolute most of 21.09°C on the finish of February. Sea floor temperature is outlined within the Earth’s outer polar oceans, from 60°S to 60°N, and is used as an ordinary diagnostic for local weather monitoring.
Although El Niño continues to weaken within the equatorial Pacific, ocean temperatures typically stay at unusually excessive ranges.
Temperatures in February had been hotter than common in most components of the Arctic, Americas, Africa, Europe, and Australia, however a lot decrease than common in components of Greenland, East Asia, and Antarctica. A separate report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) mentioned North America, South America and Europe had the warmest February on document, whereas Africa had the second warmest.
Global sea ice extent was the fourth smallest in 46 years of document. According to NOAA, the extent of Arctic sea ice was barely under common, whereas the extent of Antarctic sea ice was properly under common (370,000 sq. miles/958,295 sq. kilometers), making it the second smallest on document.
WMO’s Global Climate Situation report makes use of six worldwide datasets, together with ERA5 and NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information.