The global climate system review: June 1996 - December 2001

The seventh edition of the Global Climate System Review is a high-priority activity of the Commission for Climatology (CCl). It is based on climate system events covering the period of June 1996-December 2001, and continues the multi-annual series tradition that started with a review of the 1982-1984 period. The continuity with previous issues is maintained with updated analyses of traditional climate system monitoring (CSM) parameters and phenomena such as the global oceanatmosphere system and the surface variations in temperature and precipitation.