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.
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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]
Source: NASA/GISS GISTEMP
Graph: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
Hemispheric Temperature Trends (GMT) [updates annually]
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]
Source: www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/
Recent Mauna Loa CO2 [updates monthly]
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]
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]
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]
Source: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
Arctic Sea Ice Volume [unsure of update periodicity at this time]
Source: Polar Science Center - Arctic Sea Ice Volume Page
Image: BPIOMASIceVolumeAnomalyCurrent.png
Tomorrow's Ice Thickness Forecast [updates daily]
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Source: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/
Image: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/ithi.html
Tomorrow's Ice Displacement Forecast [updates daily]
Source: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/
Image: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/idis.html
North Pole Cam 1 [updates daily]
Source: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html
Image: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa1.jpg
North Pole Cam 2 [updates daily]
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]
Source: http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/
Image: Spring Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent
Glacier Ice Mass Loss (summary 2008) [no auto update at this time]
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]
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]
Source: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-028
Antarctic Ice Extent Increase [updates monthly]
Source: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
Antarctic Ice Extent [updates daily]
Source: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
OCEANS
Sea Level Rise, Sea Surface Temperature, Anomalies, Current & Trends
Sea Level Rise (SLR)
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Source: http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/
Updates: Sea Level Data
Multivariate ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) Index (MEI) [updates montlhy]
Source: NOAA/ESRL (Earth System Research Laboratory)
Pacific Decadal Oscillation [updates monthly]
Source: http://www.esr.org/pdo_index.html
Sea Surface Temperature (Global Monsoon Product) [Updates Weekly]
Source: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/Global-Monsoon.shtml
Sea Surface Temperature [Updates Daily]
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]
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]
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]
Source: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/
Image: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif
Solar Flux (Smoothed with Monthly Values) [updates daily]
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:
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):
Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics
3 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics
6 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics
12 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics
24 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics
36 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):
Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics
Monthly Global Soil Moisture [no auto update at this time]
Source: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/
