Sentences with phrase «nonradiative climate»
It needs to be expanded to account for the vertical and regional structure of radiative forcing and also for nonradiative climate forcings.
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Other nonradiative forcings modify the biological components of the climate system by changing the fluxes of trace gases and heat between vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere and by modifying the amount and types of vegetation.
However, this approach may not convey appropriately the impacts of nonradiative forcings on societally relevant climate variables such as precipitation or ecosystem function.
These nonradiative forcings generally have radiative impacts, but describing them only in terms of this radiative impact does not convey fully their influence on climate variables of societal relevance.
Some forcings affect the climate system in nonradiative ways, in particular by modifying the hydrological cycle or vegetation dynamics.
Nonradiative forcings generally have significant regional variation, making it important that any new metrics be able to characterize the regional structure in forcing and climate response — whether the response occurs in the region, in a distant region through teleconnections, or globally.
As is the case for regional radiative forcing, further work is needed to quantify links between regional nonradiative forcing and climate response.
Several nonradiative forcings involve the biological components of the climate system.
Does not fully characterize the climate impact of nonradiative forcing, the indirect aerosol effect (other than the first), and the semidirect aerosol effect
Further work is needed to quantify links of regional nonradiative forcing to regional and global climate response
Indeed, because nonradiative forcings affect multiple climate variables, there is no single metric that can be applied to characterize all nonradiative forcings (Marland et al., 2003; Kabat et al., 2004).
Finally, we examine ways to improve the application of radiative and nonradiative forcing metrics in policy analyses directed at climate change.