Accounting for carbon cycle feedbacks in a comparison of the global warming effects of greenhouse gases

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Gillett, Nathan P ^a   Matthews, H Damon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon feedback; Global temperature change potential; Global warming potential; Metrics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON; FEEDBACK; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES;

CLIMATE WARMING; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; METRICS; MITIGATION STRATEGY; MODEL SIMULATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 77958519711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034011     Document Type: Article

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