Climate Forcing by Greenhouse Gases

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This figure appears in the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005 report.

Radiative climate forcing by long-lived greenhouse gases. Direct radiative forcing (in Wm-2) by four classes of major long-lived greenhouse gases (left panel), and percentage of the total direct forcing for each of the four (right panel). Annual averages are from NOAA’s Global Cooperative Air Sampling Network. Credit: NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory.

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