State of the Climate in 2016

Type: 
Literature
Publication: 
AMS. 2017. State of the Climate in 2016.
Year Published: 
2017
Organization: 
American Meteorology Society
Description: 

This is the twenty-seventh issuance of the annual assessment now known as State of the Climate. Surface temperature and carbon dioxide concentration, two of the more publicly recognized indicators of global-scale climate change, set new highs during 2016, as did several surface and near-surface indicators and essential climate variables. Notably, the increase in CO2 concentration was the largest in the nearly six-decade observational record.

Category: 
climate change, meteorology, carbon emissions, expectations, observations