WMO: Update on 2023/4 Anomalies
Real Climate
MARCH 20, 2025
The impacts of East Asian SO 2 emission changes (which have dropped precipitously since ~2005) are noticeable in the global mean trends, but because they have been relatively smooth, the impact on the 2023/4 residuals is small. Indeed, we estimate that the contribution from the solar cycle has been comparably large.
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