Efficacy of climate forcings

E. Hansen, James; Sato, M.; Rüedy, Reto; Nazarenko, Larissa; A. Lacis, Andrew; A. Schmidt, Gavin; L. Russell, Gary; Aleinov, Igor; Bauer, Michael; E. Bauer, Susanne; Bell, N.; Cairns, Brian; M. Canuto, V.; A. Chandler, Mark; Cheng, Yafang; D. Del Genio, Anthony; Faluvegi, G.; L. Fleming, Eric; D. Friend, A.; Hall, Tim; H. Jackman, Charles; Kelley, M.; Y. Kiang, Nancy; Koch, D.; Lean, J.; Lerner, J.; Lo, K.; Menon, S.; L. Miller, R.; Minnis, Patrick; Novakov, T.; Oinas, Valdar; Perlwitz, J.; Perlwitz, Ju.; Rind, David; Romanou, Anastasia; Shindell, Drew; H. Stone, Peter; Sun, S.; Tausnev, N.; Thresher, D.; Wielicki, B.; Wong, Takmeng; S. Yao, M.; Zhang, S.

doi:10.1029/2005jd005776

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Efficacy of climate forcings

Published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres • Sep 27, 2005

Authors:

James E. Hansen

M. Sato

Reto Rüedy

Abstract

We use a global climate model to compare the effectiveness of many climate forcing agents for producing climate change. We find a substantial range in the “efficacy” of different forcings, where the efficacy is the global temperature response per unit forcing relative to the response to CO 2 forcing...

Subject

Environmental science

Forcing (mathematics)

Climatology

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