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The role of refrigerants in climate change.

Author(s) : WUEBBLES D. J.

Type of article: Article, IJR article

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, an observed decrease in stratospheric ozone, thought to be connected to increasing stratospheric chlorine from CFCs, suggests a negative radiative forcing or cooling tendency over the last decade. On the other hand, the radiative influence on climate from the compounds being considered as replacements, because of their shorter atmospheric lifetimes, should generally be much smaller than the CFCs. However, the effects on ozone should also be much smaller from the replacement compounds and there should be less cancellation in the overall globally averaged influence on climate.

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  • Original title: The role of refrigerants in climate change.
  • Record ID : 1994-0818
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Figures, economy
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 17 - n. 1
  • Publication date: 1994/01

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