Radiative forcing (or climate forcing) is a concept used in climate science to quantify the change in energy balance in Earth's atmosphere. Various factors...
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Cloud feedback (redirect from Cloud-radiative forcing)
cloud-free conditions, is described as cloud forcing, cloud radiative forcing (CRF) or cloud radiative effect (CRE) At the top of the atmosphere, it...
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Global warming potential (category Climate forcing)
greenhouse gas lifetimes, radiative efficiencies and metrics (PDF), IPCC, 2021, p. 7SM-24. National Research Council (2005). Radiative Forcing of Climate Change:...
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Climate sensitivity (section Radiative forcing)
by smaller forcing values. Forcings from such investigations have also been analyzed and reported at decadal time scales. Radiative forcing leads to long-term...
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Contrail (category Climate forcing)
reflect incoming solar radiation, resulting in a net increase in radiative forcing. In 1992, this warming effect was estimated between 3.5 mW/m2 and...
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: 82 Methane's radiative forcing (RF) of climate is direct,: 2 and it is the second largest contributor to human-caused climate forcing in the historical...
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Greenhouse gas (category Climate forcing)
radiation with the surface and limit radiative heat flow away from it, which reduces the overall rate of upward radiative heat transfer.: 139 The increased...
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on Monte Carlo methods in probability density function analysis of radiative forcing. Monte Carlo methods are used in various fields of computational biology...
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increase in GHGs will slow down the rate of radiative cooling to space, i.e. produce a radiative forcing until a saturation point is reached. At steady...
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understanding, nitrogen oxides, contrails and particulates. Their radiative forcing is estimated at 1.3–1.4 that of CO2 alone, excluding induced cirrus...
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Look up forcing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Forcing may refer to: Forcing (mathematics), a technique for obtaining independence proofs for set...
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Sulfate (redirect from Sulfates as climate forcing agents)
Winker, D.; Stevens, B. (1 November 2019). "Bounding Global Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate Change". Reviews of Geophysics. 58 (1): e2019RG000660....
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Earth's energy budget (redirect from Radiative balance)
multi-layered atmosphere is governed by radiative transfer equations such as Schwarzschild's equation for radiative transfer (or more complex equations if...
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Black carbon (category Climate forcing)
averaged radiative forcing after carbon dioxide (CO2), and that the radiative forcing of black carbon is "as much as 55% of the CO2 forcing and is larger...
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and radiative cooling to take place. Heat shield Optical solar reflector, used for thermal control of spacecraft Passive cooling Radiative forcing Stefan–Boltzmann...
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1-Difluoroethane at Sigma-Aldrich "Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing" (PDF). Cambridge University Press. 2007. p. 212. Retrieved 11 May...
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have produced 0.34 ± 0.03 W/m2 of radiative forcing, corresponding to about 14 percent of the total radiative forcing from increases in the concentrations...
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short-lived and mostly produce negative radiative forcing; Natural factors have made small contributions to radiative forcing over the past century) Confidence...
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activities can also impose forcings, for example, through changing the composition of Earth's atmosphere. Radiative forcing is a measure of how various...
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amount of energy radiated back to space has risen from 1.7 W/m2 in 1980, to 3.1 W/m2 in 2019. This imbalance—called radiative forcing—means that the Earth...
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Greenhouse effect (category Climate forcing)
energy flows reduce radiative surface cooling (net upward radiative energy flow). Latent heat transport and thermals provide non-radiative surface cooling...
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has a radiative core surrounded by a convective envelope, and at the boundary of these two is the tachocline. However, brown dwarfs lack radiative cores...
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Solar activity and climate (category Climate forcing)
climate: Solar irradiance changes directly affecting the climate ("radiative forcing"). This is generally considered to be a minor effect, as the measured...
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RCP4.5, RCP6, and RCP8.5 – are labelled after a possible range of radiative forcing values in the year 2100 (2.6, 4.5, 6, and 8.5 W/m2, respectively)...
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Particulates (category Climate forcing)
direct radiative forcing of atmospheric black carbon is +0.71 W/m2 with 90% uncertainty bounds of (+0.08, +1.27) W/m2" with "total direct forcing by all-black...
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gases over the past several decades contributes more than 10% of the radiative forcing which drives global climate change as of year 2020. Moreover, the...
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or decrease the warming that eventually results from a change in radiative forcing. climate change mitigation approaches to limit global warming, primarily...
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Climate system (redirect from Climate forcing agents)
human actions. The main value to quantify and compare climate forcings is radiative forcing. The Sun is the predominant source of energy input to the Earth...
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period. Natural gas is thus a potent greenhouse gas due to the strong radiative forcing of methane in the short term, and the continuing effects of carbon...
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0.21 watts per square meter (W/m2) of radiative forcing, which is equivalent to a quarter of radiative forcing from CO2 increases over the same period...
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