NOAA NCEI Global Climate Report for 2021 Released

NCEI. “Assessing the Global Climate in 2021 | News | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).” National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NOAA, 13 Jan. 2022, https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202112.

The National Centers for Environmental Information has recently published a new annual report on January 13, 2022, analyzing the global climate for 2021.

The report states that “2021 was the sixth-warmest year on record for the globe” (NCEI 2022). Average global temperatures continue to trend upward as record-high temperatures for land and sea surfaces appear across the world. Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent was above average. Sea ice extent in the arctic has increased compared to recent years, although it is still below average. Antarctic sea ice extent is below average and continuing to decrease (NCEI 2022).

This report discusses the following topics for 2021:

  • Global land and ocean surface temperatures
  • Snow and sea ice cover
  • Tropical cyclones

The rest of the report can be found below at this link:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202112

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