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Over the past three decades, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) annual State of the Climate (SoC) report has provided a compendium of essential climate variables (ECVs), their status and relation to the long-term and to other ECVs over the previous year. The SoC also provides a forum for introducing new datasets, techniques, analyses and interesting phenomena in the earth system. Together, the material presented in the report each year gives the reader a full picture of the status of our changing climate system and our ever-evolving ability to accurately monitor each piece. Since its inception, new ECVs, datasets, and methods have been continually added or updated to enhance this picture. Given the broad scope of the SoC, space for elaborating on and providing additional detail for any particular ECV is at a premium.  Given the timeline for publication of the SoC each year, time to investigate in detail the state of an ECV and its relation to other ECVs is also at a premium.  This session is an opportunity to present in depth status for ECVs for 2022 and 2023, causes for the given state, notable events for 2022 and 2023, relationships to other ECVs, impact on the natural and human environment, and implications for future states of the climate.  Abstracts from SoC authors as well as other interested parties are encouraged.  Presentations on ECVs not currently covered in the SoC are also encouraged.