The American Meteorological Society’s annual State of the Climate report provides a detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events, and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice, and in space.
The Arctic Chapter summarizes decades-long trends observed across the Arctic, including warming surface air and sea-surface temperatures, decreasing snow cover, diminishing sea ice, thawing permafrost, and continued mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic glaciers. These changes are driving a transition to a wetter, greener, and less frozen Arctic, with serious implications for Arctic peoples and ecosystems, as well as for low- and mid-latitudes.
- Read selected highlights. Just a few highlights include:
- Earth’s greenhouse gas concentrations were the highest on record.
- Ocean heat and global sea level were the highest on record.
- Antarctica sea ice sets record lows throughout 2023.
- See the Quick Guide to Climate Reports for a comparison of 5 major climate reports.
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