Recent and future trends in synthetic greenhouse gas radiative forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2623-2630

  Rigby, M ^a,b   Prinn, R G ^b   O'Doherty, S ^a   Miller, B R ^c   Ivy, D ^b   Muhle J ^d   Harth, C M ^d   Salameh, P K ^d   Arnold, T ^d   Weiss, R F ^d   Krummel, P B ^e   Steele, L P ^e   Fraser, P J ^e   Young, D ^a   Simmonds, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

inverse modeling; radiative forcing; synthetic greenhouse gas

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GASES; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; CUMULATIVE EMISSIONS; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; HYDROCHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; HYDROFLUOROCARBONS; INVERSE MODELING; MONTREAL PROTOCOLS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS;

FLUOROCARBONS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROCHLOROFLUOROCARBON; HYDROFLUOROCARBON; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MONTREAL PROTOCOL; RADIATIVE FORCING; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897352192     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059099     Document Type: Article

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