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Current Climate Conditions

Global Climate Monitor: Global Climate Monitoring of the Climate System allows a clear overview of how the system is currently behaving (climate & climate change) in response to global warming and natural variation. Graph displays below show current analysis of various aspects related to global climate including climate change indicators and related data: Global Mean Temperature (GMT); Hemispheric Temperature Variance; Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Volume; Climate and Oceanic Oscillations; Sea Level Rise (SLR); Solar Cycle Data; Sea Surface Temperatures and Anomalies; Greenhouse Gases (GHG's); Drought Information and Global Fire Activity, Drought.

Note: This page may load slowly on low bandwidth systems. Charts are updated at different intervals (daily, monthly, annual, monthly, or semi-regular or periodic intervals. Images may not appear for various reasons, including but not limited to, source data, URL status, and server status.

 THIS PAGE IS BEING TESTED FOR IMAGE UPDATE FUNCTION. NOT ALL LINKS ARE SOLID.

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]

 

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif

 

Source: NASA/GISS GISTEMP

Graph: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif

Hemispheric Temperature Trends (GMT) [updates annually]

 

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A3.lrg.gif

 

Source: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

Graph: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A3.lrg.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]

Annual Greenhouse Gas Index

Source: www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/

Recent Mauna Loa CO2 [updates monthly]

CO2 Trend for Mauna Loa

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

CRYOSPHERE

Arctic, Antarctic, Climate, Ice & Snow Trends

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

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

Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center

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

Arctic Ice Extent [updates monthly]

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

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

Arctic Sea Ice Volume [unsure of update periodicity at this time]

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/ArcticSeaiceVolume/images/BPIOMASIceVolumeAnomalyCurrent.png

 

Source: Polar Science Center - Arctic Sea Ice Volume Page

Image: BPIOMASIceVolumeAnomalyCurrent.png

Tomorrow's Ice Thickness Forecast [updates daily]

Source: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/

Image: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/ithi.html

Tomorrow's Ice Displacement Forecast [updates daily]

Tomorrow's Ice Displacement Forecast

 

Source: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/

Image: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/idis.html

North Pole Cam 1 [updates daily]

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa1.jpg

Source: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html

Image: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa1.jpg

North Pole Cam 2 [updates daily]

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa2.jpg

 Source: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html

 Image: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa2.jpg

Spring Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent [updates annually]

Spring Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent

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

Image: Spring Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent

Glacier Ice Mass Loss (summary 2008) [no auto update at this time]

Glacier Ice Mass Loss

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

Source: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/mbb/sum08.html

Arctic Oscillation [updates monthly]

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

Source: National Climate Data Center

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

Antarctic Ice Mass Loss [no auto update at this time]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/grace/grace-20060302-browse.jpg

Source: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-028

Antarctic Ice Extent Increase [updates monthly]

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

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

Antarctic Ice Extent [updates daily]

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

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

OCEANS

Sea Level Rise, Sea Surface Temperature, Anomalies, Current & Trends

Sea Level Rise (SLR)

Sea Level Graphic
Sea Level Graphic

Source: http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/

Updates: Sea Level Data

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: http://www.esr.org/pdo_index.html

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

1-Week Sea Surface Temperature

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

Sea Surface Temperature [Updates Daily]

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

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

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

Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies [Updates Daily]

http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/oper/global_anomaly_oper0.png

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

Image: http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/oper/global_anomaly_oper0.png

Sea Surface Height (US Navy) [Updates Daily]

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

Image: http://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: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html

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

Sunspots (Smoothed with Monthly Values) [updates daily]

 

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

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

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

Solar Flux (Smoothed with Monthly Values) [updates daily]

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/f10.gif

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

Image: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/f10.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:

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

Static links for latest firemaps: Dates   600x300   2048x1024   4096x2048   8192x4096

Source: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response.

Global Drought Monitoring

1 month average (data updated on the 16th of each month):
Global Drought Monitor

 Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

3 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Global Drought Monitor

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

6 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Global Drought Monitor

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

12 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Global Drought Monitor

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

24 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Global Drought Monitor

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

36 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Global Drought Monitor

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

Monthly Global Soil Moisture [no auto update at this time]

Land Surface Monitoring and Prediction

Land Surface Monitoring and Prediction

Source: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/

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