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Increases in greenhouse gases

2016
Climate
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Climate Pressures Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin Greater Hobart Greater Melbourne...

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Figure ANT6 Equivalent effective stratospheric chlorine for the Antarctic and Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes derived from AGAGE global measurements of all major ozone-depleting substances and World Meteorological Organization 2014 scenarios

2016
Antarctic environment
State and trends
Graph

Average equivalent effective stratospheric chlorine for October, Antarctica, 1970–2105 Average equivalent effective stratospheric chlorine for October, Antarctica, 1970–2105 World Meteorological Organization 2014 scenariosAGAGE Antarctic measures of major ozone...

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Figure ATM2 Radiative forcing as a result of long-lived greenhouse gases measured by CSIRO in the Southern Hemisphere

2016
Climate
Graph

Radiative forcing due to long-lived greenhouse gases, Antarctic firn and Cape Grim, 1950–2015 Radiative forcing due to long-lived greenhouse gases, Antarctic firn and Cape Grim, 1950–2015 Montreal Protocol and Kyoto Protocol synthetic greenhouse gasesNitrous...

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Figure ATM25b Monthly mean concentration of tropospheric ozone at Cape Grim, 1982–2015

2016
Climate
Graph

b Monthly mean concentration of tropospheric ozone at Cape Grim, 1982–2015 Monthly mean concentration of tropospheric ozone at Cape Grim, 1982–2015 Ozone (ppb) 1/01/1976 1/02/1976 1/03/1976 1/04/1976 1/05/1976 1/06/1976 1/07/1976 1/08/1976 1/09...

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Understanding and research

2016
Climate
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Climate Effectiveness of management Tasmania Greater Melbourne In the 5 years since SoE 2011, international climate science has advanced significantly. The IPCC,...

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Box ATM5 Cape Grim: monitoring the health of the global atmosphere for 40 years

2016
Climate
Effectiveness of management
Case Study

The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (Cape Grim BAPS), established in 1976 to monitor and study global atmospheric composition for trends as a result of human activities and natural variability, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2016. The station is managed by the Bureau...

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The physical environment: The atmosphere—climate and weather patterns

2016
Antarctic environment
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Antarctic environment State and trends Antarctica The physical environment includes both the nonliving factors that characterise an ecosystem (e.g. weather patterns, ice coverage, the...

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Pressures affecting Australia's climate

2011
Climate
Pressures
At a glance

At a glanceThe energy balance of Earth’s atmosphere is influenced by the presence of trace levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and water vapour (a major GHG), and natural and industrial aerosols. Since the start of the industrial era (around 1750...

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2011 Report graph - Figure 3.8 Major greenhouse gas levels over the past 1000 years

2011
Climate
Graph

Figure 3.8 ppb = parts per billion; ppm = parts per million Source: MacFarling Meure et al.29 updated by P Krummell, the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, unpublished data...

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