Global climate data
Climate change is a global issue. This page shows global data to help readers understand the scale of the climate issue.
Drought
Source: Hao et al. (2014)

Hurricanes
Source: Maue (2011), as updated.

Precipitation
Source: Koutsoyiannis (2020).
- Overall precipitation. Three different datasets (two of them being reanalyses).

- Standard deviation of precipitation (i.e. extremes)

Satellite temperatures
Source: University of Alabama Huntsville.

Snow cover
Source: Koutsoyiannis (2020).

Surface temperatures

If you are aware of alternative data series that you think we should show here, we’d love to hear from you. We are simply looking for readily understandable data series that are global (or nearly global) in scope.