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Earth's vital signs
The latest air and ocean temperatures, CO2 and methane in the air, and how the central tropical Pacific compares with the tropics as a whole.
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Sources: Copernicus Climate Change Service / ECMWF, ERA5 via Climate Pulse (CC BY 4.0, as listed in the Copernicus catalogue); NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (methane data DOI); NOAA Climate Prediction Center. For NOAA's official El Niño status, see its latest discussion. All temperature anomalies are against the 1991-2020 average. Values marked preliminary can still shift. The full credit is in the footer of the dashboard above.
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