Spectrally refined unbiased Monte Carlo estimate of the Earth's global radiative cooling.
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SUBMITTER: Nyffenegger-Pere Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10835068 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan
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Spectrally refined unbiased Monte Carlo estimate of the Earth's global radiative cooling.
Nyffenegger-Péré Yaniss Y Armante Raymond R Bati Mégane M Blanco Stéphane S Dufresne Jean-Louis JL Hafi Mouna El ME Eymet Vincent V Forest Vincent V Fournier Richard R Gautrais Jacques J Lebrun Raphaël R Mellado Nicolas N Mourtaday Nada N Paulin Mathias M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20240122 5
The Earth's radiative cooling is a key driver of climate. Determining how it is affected by greenhouse gas concentration is a core question in climate-change sciences. Due to the complexity of radiative transfer processes, current practices to estimate this cooling require the development and use of a suite of radiative transfer models whose accuracy diminishes as we move from local, instantaneous estimates to global estimates over the whole globe and over long periods of time (decades). Here, w ...[more]
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