Exceptional climate conditions in 2023
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Even against a backdrop of rising temperatures, the year 2023 stood out: it was a year with exceptional heat as well as exceptionally widespread heat. Antarctic sea ice extent was at a record low, in one of a succession of low-sea-ice years. It is not yet clear what caused the various climatic anomalies in 2023, but the answers will shape our understanding of what is to come – whether 2023 was a singular outlier year, or if it is a new baseline from which warming will continue to new levels.
In this cross-journal Collection, we have collected Comments and Reviews that give a glimpse of what we know so far. We invite complementary submissions that investigate - at a local, regional or global scale - how the climate or climate impacts of the year 2023 were remarkable. We also welcome articles that shed light on the mechanisms that led to these exceptional climate conditions.
Editors
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Seung-Ki Min, PhD
Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
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Joy Merwin Monteiro, PhD
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India
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Editors for Communications Earth & Environment
Seung-Ki Min, PhD
Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Joy Merwin Monteiro, PhD
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India
Joy Merwin Monteiro is an Assistant Professor at the department of Earth and Climate Science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India. He completed his Ph.D at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, following which he worked at as a postdoc at Stockholm University. He has broad interests in weather and climate phenomena, with a focus on understanding the fundamental physics that underlie these phenomena.
