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...

cloud-free conditions, is described as cloud forcing, cloud radiative forcing (CRF) or cloud radiative effect (CRE) At the top of the atmosphere, it...

by smaller forcing values. Forcings from such investigations have also been analyzed and reported at decadal time scales. Radiative forcing leads to long-term...

greenhouse gas lifetimes, radiative efficiencies and metrics (PDF), IPCC, 2021, p. 7SM-24. National Research Council (2005). Radiative Forcing of Climate Change:...

: 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...

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...

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...

understanding, nitrogen oxides, contrails and particulates. Their radiative forcing is estimated at 1.3–1.4 that of CO2 alone, excluding induced cirrus...

multi-layered atmosphere is governed by radiative transfer equations such as Schwarzschild's equation for radiative transfer (or more complex equations if...

Winker, D.; Stevens, B. (1 November 2019). "Bounding Global Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate Change". Reviews of Geophysics. 58 (1): e2019RG000660....

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...

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...

on Monte Carlo methods in probability density function analysis of radiative forcing. Monte Carlo methods are used in various fields of computational biology...

season Radiative forcing, the difference between the incoming radiation energy and the outgoing radiation energy in a given climate system Forcing (magic)...

short-lived and mostly produce negative radiative forcing; Natural factors have made small contributions to radiative forcing over the past century) Confidence...

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...

Earth's surface. Ozone depletion in the stratopshere has had a negative radiative forcing impact, however anthropogenic increases in the tropospheric abundance...

1-Difluoroethane at Sigma-Aldrich "Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing" (PDF). Cambridge University Press. 2007. p. 212. Retrieved 11 May...

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)...

energy flows reduce radiative surface cooling (net upward radiative energy flow). Latent heat transport and thermals provide non-radiative surface cooling...

daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) (also passive radiative cooling, daytime passive radiative cooling, radiative sky cooling, photonic radiative cooling...

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...

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...

or decrease the warming that eventually results from a change in radiative forcing. climate change mitigation approaches to limit global warming, primarily...

activities can also impose forcings, for example, through changing the composition of Earth's atmosphere. Radiative forcing is a measure of how various...

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...

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...

sunlight. Indirect effects of aerosols are the largest uncertainty in radiative forcing. While aerosols typically limit global warming by reflecting sunlight...

percentage caused by human activity. It accounted for 20% of the total radiative forcing from all of the long-lived and globally mixed greenhouse gases, according...

function, erf Exponential response formula Effective radiative forcing, a concept to compare radiative forcing in climate models ERF (gene), coding for ETS domain-containing...