Sentences with phrase «other forcing agents»
The term "forcing agent" refers to any substance or process that causes a change in the environment, such as increasing greenhouse gas concentrations which force climate changes. Full definition
«Therefore, unless models miss effects of other forcing agents, it is likely that this [less efficient ocean heat uptake] process will occur and act to accelerate surface warming in coming decades.»
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These basic scenarios and other forcing agents incorporated in the AOGCM projections, including several types of natural and anthropogenic aerosols, are discussed in Section 10.2.1.
I think the most plausible route to getting a different result for the lapse rate trend is through the addition of other forcing agents, other than well - mixed greenhouse gases, acting near the tropopause.
The temporal evolution of the LLGHGs, aerosols and other forcing agents are described in Sections 10.2.1.1 and 10.2.1.2.
For results involving efficacy to be valid, they must use the same forcing measure when comparing the response to CO2 forcing with that to other forcing agents.
The radiative forcing estimates are based on the forcing of greenhouse gases and other forcing agents.5 The four selected RCPs were considered to be representative of the literature, and included one mitigation scenario leading to a very low forcing level (RCP2.6), two medium stabilization scenarios (RCP4.5 / RCP6) and one very high baseline emission scenarios (RCP8.5).
Radiative forcing values include the net effect of all anthropogenic GHGs and other forcing agents