Climate Change in the Pacific 2022: Historical and Recent Variability, Extremes and Change

The report provides an update of scientific understanding of large-scale climate processes, variability and extremes in the western tropical Pacific first presented in the Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP) Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research, Volume 2, Country reports (2011) and the Pacific - Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning (PACCSAP) Program Climate Variability, Extremes and change in the Western Tropical Pacific: New Science and updated Country Reports (2014).

The work designed to complement the 'NextGen' Projections for the Western Tropical Pacific country reports and provide finer-scale partner country historical climate change information not presented in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, and WMO RA-V Pacific RCCN-N Pacific Climate Change Monitor Report.