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The role of refrigerants in climate change.

Author(s) : WUEBBLES D. J.

Summary

The purpose of the paper is to describe the current understanding of the role of refrigerants in affecting climate. Increasing atmospheric concentrations of CFCs have accounted for about 24% of the direct increase in radiative forcing from greenhouse gases over the last decade. However, observed decreases in stratospheric ozone, thought to be connected to increasing stratospheric chlorine from CFCs, suggests a cooling tendency over the last decade. Because of their shorter atmospheric lifetimes, the direct radiative influence on climate from the replacement compounds should generally be much smaller than the CFCs.

Details

  • Original title: The role of refrigerants in climate change.
  • Record ID : 1992-2554
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Environment
  • Publication date: 1992/06/22
  • Source: Source: Proc. int. Symp. Refrig. Energy Environ., Trondheim
    1-19; 8 fig.; 3 tabl.; 29 ref.
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