Climate driver · Cross-cutting

Climate variability

Deviations of climate variables from a given mean state, including the occurrence of extremes, at all spatial and temporal scales beyond that of individual weather events.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI Annex VII Glossary: Climate variability

Synonyms

interannual variability, seasonal variability

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

El Nino-Southern Oscillation

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert; Lexicon consensus

Identifier

CDI_09 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CDI_09
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CDI_09)