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Warming Stripes Spark Climate Conversations: From the Ocean to the Stratosphere

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Paul Young

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© 2025 Author(s).The “warming stripes” are an iconic climate data visualization, adopted globally as a symbol of our warming world. We discuss their origin and uses for communication, including understanding long-term changes in the climate and consequences of future emission choices. We also extend the stripes concept to explore observed temperature variations throughout the climate system, revealing coherent warming for the troposphere and upper ocean and cooling in the stratosphere, consistent with our understanding of human influences on our climate.

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Author(s): Hawkins E, Williams RG, Young PJ, Berardelli J, Burgess SN, Highwood E, Randel W, Roussenov V, Smith D, Placky BW

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Year: 2025

Volume: 106

Issue: 5

Pages: E964-E970

Print publication date: 01/05/2025

Online publication date: 28/05/2025

Acceptance date: 05/03/2025

Date deposited: 09/06/2025

ISSN (print): 0003-0007

ISSN (electronic): 1520-0477

Publisher: American Meteorological Society

URL: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0212.s1

DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0212.1

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