The Physical Science Basis — IPCC (original) (raw)

Please use the following reference to the whole report: IPCC, 2013: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 1535 pp.

Full Report

Front Matter

Summary for Policymakers

Technical Summary

Chapters

1 Introduction

2 Observations: Atmosphere and Surface

3 Observations: Ocean

4 Observations: Cryosphere

5 Information from Paleoclimate Archives

6 Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

7 Clouds and Aerosols

8 Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing

9 Evaluation of Climate Models

10 Detection and Attribution of Climate Change: from Global to Regional

11 Near-term Climate Change: Projections and Predictability

12 Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility

13 Sea Level Change

14 Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change

Annexes

I

Atlas of Global and Regional Climate Projections

II

Climate System Scenario Tables

III

Glossary

IV

Acronyms

V

Contributors to the WGI Fifth Assessment Report

VI

Expert Reviewers of the WGI Fifth Assessment Report

Other

Index

Errata (updated 10.12.2020)

All Citations

Fact Sheet

Questions about the Report

Poster

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Supplementary Material

TSSM – Technical Summary – Supplementary Material

Chapter 2SM – Observations: Atmosphere and Surface – Supplementary Material

CHAPTER 4SM – Observations: Cryosphere – Supplementary Material

Chapter 6SM – Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles – Supplementary Material

Chapter 7SM – Clouds and Aerosols – Supplementary Material

Chapter 8SM – Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing – Supplementary Material

Chapter 10SM – Detection and Attribution of Climate Change: from Global to Regional – Supplementary Material

Chapter 13SM – Sea Level Change – Supplementary Material

Chapter 14SM -Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change – Supplementary Material

AISM – Annex I: Atlas of Global and Regional Climate Projections – Supplementary Material RCP2.6

AISM – Annex I: Atlas of Global and Regional Climate Projections – Supplementary Material RCP4.5

AISM – Annex I: Atlas of Global and Regional Climate Projections – Supplementary Material RCP6.0

AISM – Annex I: Atlas of Global and Regional Climate Projections – Supplementary Material RCP8.5

Summary Volume (SPM, TS & FAQs) into UN Languages

Translation of the WGI AR5 SPM TS FAQ Volume from English into the other five official languages of the United Nations was done by translators working for the WMO Language, Conference and Publishing Services Department. The assistance of scientists from the WGI chapter teams who acted as scientific translation editors for each language is gratefully acknowledged.

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SPM in UN and other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions in UN and other languages

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