STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2013


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Blunden J., Arndt D. S., Aaron-Morrison A. P., Ackerman S. A., Albanil A., Alfaro E. J., ...More

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, vol.95, no.7, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

Abstract

In 2013, the vast majority of the monitored climate variables reported here maintained trends established in recent decades. ENSO was in a neutral state during the entire year, remaining mostly on the cool side of neutral with modest impacts on regional weather patterns' around the world. This follows several years dominated by the effects of either La Nina. or El Nino events.