Climate Change 1992Cambridge University Press, 1992 M05 28 - 200 páginas This report is a supplement to the 1990 Report of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC was set up jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988 to provide an authoritative international consensus of scientific opinion on global warming. This supplement reviews the key conclusions of the 1990 Report in the light of new evidence, focusing on five main areas: sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, and the precursors of tropospheric ozone; radiative forcing of the atmosphere, with emphasis on the concept of Global Warming Potential; updated scenarios for emission of greenhouse gases up to the end of the 21st century (as the basis for climate modelling studies); new developments in climate modelling and model validation; recent observational data on climate variability and change. |
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CONTENTS | 5 |
What Would We Now Estimate for Climate Change? | 17 |
A Greenhouse Gases | 23 |
A2 Radiative Forcing of Climate | 47 |
An Update | 69 |
B Climate Modelling Climate Prediction and Model Validation | 97 |
Observed Climate Variability and Change | 135 |
Annex | 171 |
Acronyms | 193 |
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aerosols analysis annual anthropogenic assumptions atmospheric concentrations Atmospheric Research average biomass biomass burning calculations carbon CFCs circulation model Clim climate change climate models climate sensitivity cloud CO₂ CO2 emissions coupled ocean-atmosphere CSIRO Division cycle data sets decade decrease deforestation distribution doubled CO2 energy Environmental estimates feedback Figure flux forest fossil fuel future Geophys GFDL glaciers Global Warming Potential greenhouse effect greenhouse gas emissions greenhouse gases growth Hadley Centre halocarbons HCFCs increase indirect GWP interannual IPCC IPCC Scenarios Laboratory land lower stratosphere magnitude Meteorological Office methane Montreal Protocol NMHC NOAA Northern Hemisphere observed precipitation Prediction radiative forcing radiosonde range recent reduced regional relative sea-ice Section significant simulated solar stratospheric stratospheric ozone sulphate aerosols sulphur surface air temperature temperature anomalies temperature change time-scales trends tropical tropospheric ozone UKMO uncertainties updated variability variations Wang water vapour Wigley