CSIR researcher played important role in global climate report

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Thursday highlighted the role one of its chief researchers played in the compiling of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) 2023 State of the Climate Report, which was published last month as a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. This was the thirty-fourth edition of the NOAA report, which is published annually. CSIR chief researcher Dr Sandy Thomalla headed the team of 15 researchers (including herself) which produced the “Antarctica and the Southern Ocean” chapter of the report. The chapter was divided into seven sections, and while Thomalla’s team wrote it, the total number of experts involved in its compilation was 52. (In all, the complete 2023 NOAA report involved 592 experts from 59 countries, with 25 editors.)