🌍🔬 Have you already seen the 2023
#ESOTC
report from
#CopernicusClimate
and
@WMO
? Here is a summary video highlighting some of the key findings.
You can find the full report here 👉
The unprecedented 2020 northern hemisphere
#OzoneHole
has come to an end. The
#PolarVortex
split, allowing
#ozone
-rich air into the Arctic, closely matching last week's forecast from the
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service.
More on the NH Ozone hole➡️
🌍🌡️2023 is confirmed as the warmest calendar year on record, with a global average temperature of 14.98°C, 0.60°C above the 1991-2020 level, overtaking 2016, the previous warmest year.
Learn more in the
#C3S
Global Climate Highlights report 👉
📈🌡️ Global mean temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees threshold during the first days of June. Monitoring how often and for how long these breaches occur is more important than ever, if we are to avoid more severe consequences of the climate crisis.
Read more:
🌡️ ERA5 data from
@CopernicusECMWF
indicates that 17 November was the first day that the global temperature exceeded 2°C above pre-industrial levels, reaching 2.07°C above the 1850-1900 average and the provisional ERA5 value for 18 November is 2.06°C.
The 2023 Southern Hemisphere
#ozonehole
finally closed on 20 December, becoming the 7th longest-lived in the
#CopernicusAtmosphere
records. The animation shows the evolution from its early start in August to this late closure. Find out more:
European residents may notice stunning sunsets & dirty cars this week, as plumes of dust from the Sahara are blown north.
What are the wider impacts of this dust & how can the
@CopernicusEU
#Atmosphere
Monitoring Service (CAMS) help?
Find out ... ➡️
📢September
#temperature
highlights from
#Copernicus
#C3S
:
🌡️Globally and in Europe, September 2020 was the warmest September on record, with well above average temperatures in many regions
🌡️Cool La Niña conditions in eastern tropical Pacific
More ➡️
📢July
#temperature
highlights from the
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service
#C3S
:
🌡️ Second warmest July on record for Europe
🌡️ Third warmest July on record globally
🌡️ Heatwaves occurred from the Baltic to the eastern Mediterranean
More detail➡️
📢October
#temperature
highlights from
#Copernicus
#C3S
:
🌡️ In Europe, it was the warmest October in our records.
🌡️ Globally, it was the third warmest October. The 6 warmest Octobers have all occurred in the last 6 years.
More➡️
@Anna_jon7
Actually, COVID19 and the associated lockdowns probably had nothing to do with this. It's been driven by an unusually strong and long-lived polar vortex, and isn't related to air quality changes. You can read more about what's been going on here:
Three
#ERA5
-based charts you shouldn't miss this month:
- November consolidates 2023 as the warmest year on record -
#C3S
- Few cold anomalies scattered in the November warm anomalies -
@ScottDuncanWX
- Global monthly temperature 1940 to 2023 -
@neilrkaye
@esaclimate
Flights to and from the Canary Islands were grounded this weekend by sand blown from the Sahara Desert. This
@CopernicusEU
Atmosphere Monitoring Service animation shows its movement from the beginning of February to yesterday.
More on Saharan desert dust➡️
📈According to the
#ERA5dataset
, the 7 days from 3rd to 9th July 2023 were the 7 hottest days on record globally, making the first week of July 2023 the hottest week on record.
Get the data 👉
🌡️📈 According to data from the
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service, the first 3 weeks of July have already broken several significant records, including:
▶️Hottest day globally;
▶️Hottest 3 weeks globally.
#C3S
data also show:
▶️July 2023 likely to be hottest month on record.
In the anniversary of the Paris Agreement and as the Parties negotiate the
#COP28
declaration to keep alive the 1.5°C threshold, an analysis using
#C3S
data shows that we've lost 19 years in the battle against global warming.
More👉
Just published: 2023 is the warmest year in recorded history.
2023 has now had six record breaking months and two record breaking seasons - summer and autumn.
What's next? How will the world manage climate risks from
#COP28UAE
onwards?
Details here:
📈 According to preliminary data from the
#ERA5
dataset, the global average 2m
#temperature
reached 16.88°C on Monday, breaking the previous record of 16.80°C from August 2016.
Get the data 👉
#Climate
#ClimateChange
The ozone layer is recovering, as
@UNEPozone
stated but the 2022
#ozonehole
was within the 15 largest in
#CopernicusAtmosphere
/
#C3S
44 year record and closed later than usual (similar to 2021 & 2020).
More about 3 peculiar Antarctic ozone holes in a row:
🌎📊The
#CopernicusClimate
data as you've never seen before.
The
#C3S
Atlas is a gateway to exploring 30 variables from 8 state-of-the-art datasets, with limitless possibilities for exploration.
Explore its main features & find out more here 👉
#WorldMigratoryBirdDay
🐦
#ClimateChange
affects many migratory bird species, e.x. making them arrive earlier in spring due to rising temperatures
Explore our interactive tool showcasing long-term effects of climate variations on bird migration across 🇪🇺:
The latest
#C3S
climate bulletin confirmed that the global surface air temperature for July 2023 was the highest on record for any month in the
#ERA5
dataset.
🌡️ 1.5°C warmer than the 1850-1900 average, the limit established by the
#ParisAgreement
.
▶️
📢May
#temperature
highlights from the
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service
#C3S
:
🌡️Globally, it was 0.26ºC warmer than the 1991-2020 average for May
🌡️For Europe, May 2021 was 0.46ºC below the 1991-2020 average
For more details➡️
The
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service is forecasting another substantial Saharan desert dust event affecting Europe this Sunday to Monday, which is expected to bring high levels of particulate matter.
Read more detail ➡️
🌐Today marks the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.
With its data,
#CopernicusAtmosphere
plays a major role in understanding the
#OzoneLayer
.
But what is the
#OzoneHole
& why does it form? Find out in our article👉
#OzoneDay2023
📢 📊 The
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service has just released the 2022 European State of the Climate report. A must-read for anyone interested in the latest analysis of
#climatechange
.
Check it out now ☞
#ESOTC
#EUSpace
We continue to monitor closely the remarkable episode of smoke transport from the
#CanadaFires
over Europe, currently over Ireland, France & Spain.
It will be moving eastwards in the coming days according to the
#CopernicusAtmosphere
forecast.
More 👉
Hourly reanalysis data from ERA5, the fifth-generation global climate and weather reanalysis, is now available from 1940 to the present day!
This extends the ERA5 data record to over 83 years & is the backbone of many C3S products & services.
Learn more:
🌡️📈 Europe is warming twice as fast as the global avg. , summer 2022 was the warmest on record, & weather & climate events resulted in over 16k fatalities last year.
Read the joint State of the Climate in Europe report released today from
@WMO
&
#C3S
👉
The
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service has been tracking the massive plume of Saharan dust across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. This animation shows the movement of the dust from 1-21 June.
Learn about the effects of desert dust➡️
The
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service dust aerosol forecast shows a large plume of
#SaharanDust
has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Caribbean. CAMS global analyses shows high values across much of the Sahara since the beginning of June➡️
The
#C3S
monthly Climate Bulletin is out now:
📈June was the warmest June globally at just over 0.5°C above average;
📈 the North Atlantic saw record-high sea surface temperatures;
📈
#Antarctic
sea ice reached its lowest extent for June on record at 17% below average.
Antarctic
#ozonehole
keeps intriguing this season
#CopernicusAtmosphere
data showed series of rebounds in late Nov when it usually declines until its closure. Our forecasts indicate it could become the largest ever observed in Dec
More:
#Antarcticaday
📢 January
#temperature
highlights from
#Copernicus
#C3S
:
🌡️In Europe, last month was the warmest January in our record, at 3.1°C warmer than the 1981-2010 average
🌡️Globally, it was warmest January in our record, but only barely warmer than 2016
More➡️
☀️🌡️June 2019 hottest ever recorded.
Data from the
@CopernicusEU
#Climate
Change Service (
#C3S
) released today show that the European-average temperature for June 2019 was more than 2°C above normal.
Learn more about the record-breaking temperatures ➡️
February
#Temperature
highlights from the
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service (
#C3S
).
Last month was:
🌡 the warmest February on record globally;
🌡 1.77°C warmer than an estimate of the pre-industrial average February temperature.
For more information 👉
In the last two years the
#ozone
hole had an unusual behaviour. Do you want to know how the 2022 ozone hole development compares to the previous seasons?
Watch this video to find out 👉
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Although it looks like the
#PolarVortex
has not quite come to an end yet and will reform in the next few days
#ozone
values will not got back to the very low levels seen earlier in April.
To follow its development watch the CAMS ozone forecast➡️
@giizhigokwe01
This Arctic ozone hole actually has nothing to do with coronavirus-related lockdowns, but rather was caused by an unusually strong and long-lived polar vortex. This article explains what caused it in more detail:
By popular request we've made a global version of this carbon monoxide animation. As a product of incomplete combustion, carbon monoxide can be used to track pollution from both wildfires and human activity.
Explore CAMS Forecasts for CO and more➡️
🌡️📈 2023 has seen the largest sea surface temperature anomaly for any July on record.
Data from the
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service also show that global average SSTs reached the highest value in the
#C3S
#ERA5
dataset on 31 July.
Check the data👉
Between September and December,
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service scientists tracked the development and recovery of one of the longest-lived Antarctic ozone holes on record.
For an overview of the 2021
#ozonehole
season, see here 👉
🔥The wildfire in
#Gironde
, south-west France, is clearly shown in the
#CopernicusAtmosphere
regional ensemble PM10 forecast for today, also showing a large fire in eastern
#Portugal
and a
#SaharanDust
intrusion over the Iberian Peninsula.
More info here:
High levels of
#SaharanDust
are being transported across the Iberian Peninsula towards northern Europe.
The
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service is predicting the path of the dust transport and tracking its progress
Learn more 👉
The
#C3S
's monthly climate bulletin is out now:
📈 February 2024 was globally the warmest on record;
📈 Global Sea Surface Temperatures hit record highs.
▶️
📢November
#temperature
highlights from
#Copernicus
#C3S
:
🌡️ Globally, last month was the warmest November on record, by a clear margin
🌡️ For Europe, the month roughly tied as the second warmest on record
More➡️
🌐The
@CopernicusEU
#Atmosphere
Monitoring Service is keeping its eyes on factors that might be driving
#2019
's unusually small
#OzoneHole
.
This animation shows one of those influences: unusually warm temperatures in the stratosphere over
#Antarctica
from 1 August to yesterday.
🌍 The
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service's report on the European State of the Climate for 2021 has just been released!
#C3S
puts last year's climatic conditions into context with long-term trends.
#EarthDay
#EarthDay2022
Explore the
#ESOTC
➡
This
@CopernicusEU
#Atmosphere
Monitoring Service animation of high-resolution carbon monoxide & carbon dioxide forecasts highlights the detailed the structure of smoke transport from the
#AustralianBushfires
over the Southern Hemisphere.
More forecasts➡️
2022 was the 2nd warmest year on record in Europe. Globally, it was the 5th warmest year on record & the global annual average temperature was 0.3°C above 1991-2020 ref period and 1.2 degrees above preindustrial.
More details here ➡️
#CopernicusClimate
🌐 What's going on with 2021's Antarctic
#OzoneHole
? It is still very deep and large, and it will be interesting to see what happens in the coming weeks. Watch this space!
Learn more about 2021's
#ozone
hole and CAMS ozone monitoring ➡️
Climate scientist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh passed away on Tuesday. The climate community has lost a wonderful colleague and a great source of inspiration. We will miss dearly his monthly analysis of the climate and his world-leading work on attribution.
CAMS forecasts of SO₂ dispersion can help evaluating the possible impacts of a volcanic eruption like in
#LaPalma
. The impacts of SO₂ released by
#CumbreVieja
on weather & air quality at the surface are most likely very small.
More on CAMS' monitoring ➡️
🔥There have been many active fires since mid-August in the Americas, leading to thick smoke on a continental scale as shown in this animation of aerosol optical depth from the
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service.
Explore our forecasts➡
Global
#wildfires
in 2022 generated around 1,455 Mt of carbon emissions. Europe and S America saw the highest emissions in the last 20 years and France & Spain were the worst affected European countries.
#CopernicusAtmosphere
wildfire monitoring page:
🌐Today, the
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service forecasts a rapid decrease in the size of the
#OzoneHole
over the next 5 days.
It could thin enough to 'close', which has never happened this early in the year.
#WatchThisSpace
for updates as we track this unprecedented event
The latest
#CopernicusClimate
multi-system seasonal forecast has been published!
Follow the link for the new plots and a brief summary on what they show for the coming summer 👇
Europe saw 3rd warmest January on record.
Antarctic sea ice extent reached its lowest for January.
New Year's Day saw record temperatures in Europe with 0.6°C higher than any previous daily January value in the full
#ERA5
data record back to 1940.
More:
The last seven years were the warmest on record, with 2021 5th but with a small margin to 2015 and 2018. See in the video which regions had the largest geographical anomalies for the year.
#CopernicusClimate
#C3S
The latest
@UNEP
@UNEPozone
report confirms we're on track to fix the
#ozonehole
in the coming decades.
DYK
#CopernicusAtmosphere
monitors the ozone layer throughout the year?
Here's the evolution of the 2022 Antarctic ozone hole ⬇️
More info:
🌐The
@CopernicusEU
#Atmosphere
Monitoring Services' final rendering of 2019's
#OzoneHole
season is now available! The full season allows us to put this atypical year in context with decades of
#ozone
tracking, emphasising its uniqueness.
Read more➡️
2020 has seen record-breaking low levels of
#ozone
over the Arctic, including the formation of a ozone hole. Unlike the Antarctic ozone hole, which has formed annually for 35 years, this level of ozone depletion in the far north is very rare.
Why?➡️
❗️The
@CopernicusEU
#Climate
Change Service is pleased to announce that
#ERA5
-Land reanalysis (hourly and monthly) has been extended back to 1981 ,and is now available for free through the Climate Data Store (
#CDS
).
#MapsWithoutGaps
More Info➡️
📢May
#temperature
highlights from
#Copernicus
#C3S
:
🌡️Globally, it was the warmest May in our record, at 0.63°C above average
🌡️Although May was colder than average in Europe, spring 2020 was overall 0.7°C warmer than the norm
More detail➡️
🌐This year's
#OzoneHole
is expected to be the smallest since the mid-1980s.
The
@CopernicusEU
#Atmosphere
Monitoring Service forecast below shows that, this week, it will shrink & then slowly grow again.
Learn what CAMS can tell us about the situation➡️
🏜Saharan
#dust
has covered the snow in the Alps and Pyrenees, turning it orange. The
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service’s forecasts accurately predicted the development and trajectory of this dust plume days in advance.
Read more➡
Is cutting emissions contributing to
#GlobalWarming
?
An analysis from
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service &
#C3S
scientists, concludes that it is too early to attribute the 2023 warm temperatures to the recent reductions in aerosols.
More👉
How sure are we that recent changes in
#AirQuality
are due to
#coronavirus
lockdowns? The effects are clear where strong measures have been in place for weeks, like China and Northern Italy, but in other places we need to be more cautious.
Find out why➡️
The July
#C3S
Climate Bulletin is out now:
📈Global average temperature was highest on record for any month.
📈Drier-than-average conditions across the Mediterranean basin.
📈
#Antarctic
sea ice extent reached a record low for July at 15% below average.
▶️
🌐🧁While it may look a bit like a sweet treat, this
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service animation shows the Southern Hemisphere
#OzoneHole
developing from July 2020-January 2021.
Read more about this year's unusually long-lived ozone hole➡️
The
@CopernicusEU
#Atmosphere
Monitoring Service is celebrating World
#OzoneDay
by staying on duty tracking 2019's oddball
#OzoneHole
.
This animation compares it to every year since 1979, showing the variation over time.
Full update➡️
Ground-based and satellite observations have confirmed that the
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service correctly forecasted the massive plume of
#SaharanDust
that recently reached the Caribbean.
How and why we monitor & forecast dust in the
#atmosphere
➡️
🌍🔬 Today,
#CopernicusClimate
and
@WMO
release the 2023
#ESOTC
report. It details climate conditions, key events, their impacts, and discusses climate policy and action with a focus on human health.
Read the full report here 👉
🌡️📈 Europe has been experiencing some of the hottest temperatures of summer 2023 so far.
But what is influencing this
#heatwave
, what are its potential consequences, & is
#ClimateChange
affecting it?
Find out in our new article 👉
📢February
#temperature
highlights from
#CopernicusClimate
#C3S
:
🌡️ Globally, the month was close to the 1991-2020 average
🌡️Europe as a whole also saw temperatures close to the 1991-2020 average, but with considerable regional variation
For more info➡️
2020's
#OzoneHole
is both larger and deeper than most in recent years. This is being driven by a strong, stable and cold polar vortex, with all signs pointing to continued ozone depletion in the coming days.
#Ozone
monitoring➡️
🌐The animation below shows 2020's record-breaking
#Antarctic
#OzoneHole
develop & recover from early July to the end of the year. The
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service is closely monitoring the current
#Ozone
activity & expects development soon➡️
🌐This
#CopernicusAtmosphere
Monitoring Service animation shows the development of 2020's record-breaking
#Antarctic
#ozonehole
.
Read more about what happened and why, and how last year's ozone hole season fits into the longer-term context➡️
We are delighted to announce that Carlo Buontempo (
@carlo_tuitter
) will be the new Director of the
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service.
Read all about Carlo's experience and professional interests ➡️
This
@CopernicusEU
#Atmosphere
Monitoring Service animation tracks carbon monoxide from Jan 2003 to Jan 2020. Can you spot:
- Tropical biomass burning?
- Anthropogenic emissions?
- Boreal fires?
- El Niño years?
- Seasonal cycles?
Future Forecasts➡️
💻Involved in tackling biodiversity loss or decision making in ecosystem services? Today we release 4 new global & downscaled regional datasets derived from reanalysis & climate projections providing up to 78 bioclimatic indicators
Access them in the
#CDS
➡️
It's now easier than ever to learn how to build applications in the
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service's
#CDS
Toolbox! The new documentation page gathers together tutorials, how-to guides and more to help you get started.
Explore the resources➡️
📣
#C3S
is proud to launch a new tool: Climate Pulse.
The aim of this tool is to make climate monitoring more intuitive and available to everyone by providing a precise picture of the near-real time status of our climate.
Discover it here 👉
August
#Temperature
highlights from
#CopernicusClimate
Change Service:
Last month was:
🌡Globally 0.3°C warmer than 1991-2020 average
🌡Joint 3rd warmest August on record
🌡For Europe the highest on record for August & summer (June-August) as a whole
👉
According to
#CopernicusAtmosphere
data, the 2023 ozone hole is starting to form earlier than in 2021 and 2022, in line with the forecast.
Read more & stay tuned for more
#OzoneInsights
in the coming days
👉
Reaching 1.5˚C of global warming might be closer than we think.
Experts suggest it is likely to happen between 2030 - early 2050s.
See where we are now and how soon we would reach the limit if the warming continued at today’s pace.
Discover in our app:
📢February
#temperature
highlights from
#Copernicus
#C3S
:
🌡️Last month was the second warmest February in our record, globally and for Europe
🌡️This winter was by far the warmest on record for Europe, 1.4°C higher than next warmest winter
More detail➡️