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Role of greenhouse gas in climate change

Volume 71 (2019): Issue 1

By: Syukuro Manabe

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|Jan 2019

Abstract

Climate models have become the most powerful tool not only for predicting climate change but also for understanding it. Here, I discuss the role of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and water vapour in global warming, using a hierarchy of climate models with increasing complexity.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2019.1620078 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 1620078 - 1620078

Published on: Jan 1, 2019

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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Keywords:

climate change,

global warming,

greenhouse effect,

© 2019 Syukuro Manabe, published by Stockholm University Press
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