Last edited 16 Apr 2025

Climate indicator

Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis, Annex VII: Glossary, written by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and published by Cambridge University Press in 2023, defines climate indicators as: ‘Measures of the climate system, including large-scale variables and climate proxies. See also Climate metrics. Key indicators constitute a finite set of distinct variables that may collectively point to important overall changes in the climate system of broad societal relevance across the atmospheric, oceanic, cryospheric and biospheric domains, with land as an implicit crosscutting theme. Taken together, these indicators would be expected to both have changed and continue to change in the future in a coherent and consistent manner.’

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