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Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Chris Smith
Tristram Walsh
William F. Lamb
Robin Lamboll
Bradley Hall
Mathias Hauser
Aurélien Ribes
Debbie Rosen
Nathan P. Gillett
Matthew D. Palmer
Joeri Rogelj
Karina von Schuckmann
Blair Trewin
Myles Allen
Robbie Andrew
Richard A. Betts
Alex Borger
Tim Boyer
Jiddu A. Broersma
Carlo Buontempo
Samantha Burgess
Chiara Cagnazzo
Lijing Cheng
Pierre Friedlingstein
Andrew Gettelman
Johannes Gütschow
Masayoshi Ishii
Stuart Jenkins
Colin Morice
Jens Mühle
Christopher Kadow
John Kennedy
Rachel E. Killick
Paul B. Krummel
Jan C. Minx
Gunnar Myhre
Vaishali Naik
Glen P. Peters
Anna Pirani
Julia Pongratz
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Sophie Szopa
Peter Thorne
Mahesh V. M. Kovilakam
Elisa Majamäki
Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen
Margreet van Marle
Rachel M. Hoesly
Robert Rohde
Dominik Schumacher
Guido van der Werf
Russell Vose
Kirsten Zickfeld
Xuebin Zhang
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
Panmao Zhai
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