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http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/modern_day_climate_change.html
Will the IGBP Climate Change Index 2011 grow ?
Josef Biesenberger in
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kruijs: Void: Other than the issue linked from the background text, only referring to 2007 (most recent), I am unable to find any newer releases of the index. http://www.igbp.net/globalchange/climatechangeindex.4.1b8ae20512db692f2a680001647.html
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http://igbp.sv.internetborder.se/globalchange/climatechangeindex.4.1b8ae20512db692f2a680001647.html
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/images/CCI-composite_flyer.pdf
The IGBP Climate-Change Index brings together key indicators of global change:
atmospheric carbon dioxide temperature sea level sea ice.
It will be released annually. The index gives an annual snapshot of how the planet's complex systems - the ice, the oceans, the land surface and the atmosphere - are responding to the changing climate. The index rises steadily from 1980 - the earliest date the index has been calculated. The change is unequivocal, it is global, and it is in one direction - up!
Each parameter is normalized between -100 and +100. Zero is no annual change. One hundred is the maximum-recorded annual change since 1980. The normalized parameters are averaged. This gives the index for the year. The value for each year is added to that of the previous year to show the cumulative effect of annual change. (IGBP Climate-Change Index, 2010)
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/images/CCI-composite_flyer.pdf
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/modern_day_climate_change.html
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