"radiative" refers to anything related to radiation or the emission of energy in the form of rays or waves. It describes processes or objects that emit or emit radiation.
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The public in general senses that the truth can be found by splitting the difference, an absurd position when it comes to measuring and evaluating the effects of
radiative forcing in the atmosphere.
Small changes in oceanic or atmospheric circulation due to small changes in
radiative equilibrium may translate in flooding here and drying there, warming here and cooling there, etc..
They include also the significant influence of CO2
on radiative energy transfer in the atmosphere.
Although the data does show a much larger increase in
cloud radiative forcing between the 80's and 90's.
I actually don't deal
with radiative transfer, there are enough papers (see among others the reference above) that do that quite nicely.
The differential equations of heat flow and conservation of energy simply do not do what is claimed by the climate science
radiative greenhouse effect.
A study discovered weaknesses in the accuracy of satellite - based data sets, which can be improved to obtain more accurate information about the
surface radiative energy budget in the region.
There is significant seasonal and regional variability in the cloud
radiative impact.
The net
radiative feedback due to all cloud types is likely (> 66 % chance) positive, although a negative feedback (damping global climate changes) is still possible.
Putting it all together, Figure 2 compares the warming from human caused greenhouse gases to the
total radiative forcing from all human sources.
The relationship
between radiative forcing and surface temperature defines climate sensitivity.
At night,
radiative losses from urban building and street materials keep the city's air warmer than that of rural areas.
This is * not * the average value of the temperature T - that is why I called it an «
effective radiative temperature», and not the «average temperature».
Like the other metrics discussed above, global
mean radiative forcing at the surface would not allow characterization of the regional structure of forcing.
These optical depths can be used in conjunction with assumptions about
aerosol radiative properties to calculate the direct forcing.
Other causes, including
solar radiative output variations, are thought to be less important, but they are also far less certain.
The temperature did not change, so the surface temperature - dependent responses of
atmospheric radiative cooling also did not change.