Abstract
The concept of radiative forcing provides an easy way to obtain a quantified first order estimate of how changes in any climatic parameter might affect world climate. It is defined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports (IPCC, 1990, 1992 and 1994) as follows:
The radiative forcing of the surface-troposphere system (due to a change, for example, in greenhouse gas concentration) is the change in the net irradiance (in Wm-2) at the tropopause after allowing for stratospheric temperatures to re-adjust to radiative equilibrium, but with surface and tropospheric temperatures held fixed at their unperturbed values.
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Granier, C., Karol, I. (1997). Radiative Forcing. In: Brasseur, G.P. (eds) The Stratosphere and Its Role in the Climate System. Nato ASI Series, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03327-2_11
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