State of the Climate in 2018

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• Journal Title:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Personal Author:
  Blunden, Jessica ; Arndt, Derek S.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NOS (National Ocean Service) ; NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science) ; NWS (National Weather Service) ; CPC (Climate Prediction Center) ; NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction) ; NHC (National Hurricane Center) ; NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; AOML (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) ; ARL (Air Resources Laboratory) ; GML (Global Monitoring Laboratory) ; ESRL (Earth System Research Laboratory) ; PMEL (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory) ; NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) ; CICS (Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies) ; CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; JIMAR (Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research) ; JISAO (Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean)
• Description:
  In 2018, the dominant greenhouse gases released into Earth’s atmosphere—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—continued their increase. The annual global average carbon dioxide concentration at Earth’s surface was 407.4 ± 0.1 ppm, the highest in the odern instrumental record and in ice core records dating back 800 000 years. Combined, greenhouse gases and several halogenated gases contribute just over 3 W m−2 to radiative forcing and represent a nearly 43% increase since 1990. Carbon dioxide is responsible for about 65% of this radiative forcing.
• Source:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 100, No. 9, September 2019
• Series:
  State of the Climate
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
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  Submitted
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