Our earlier work disclosed a distinctive spatial pattern of the CO2 radiative forcing, which at first look is surprising in that CO2 itself is uniformly distributed. Based on radiative transfer theory, Huang, Tan and Xia explained why the CO2 radiative forcing varies geographically and showd how it matters for climate change, especially concerning the poleward energy transport of the atmosphere and ocean. Read more about it in this article: “Inhomogeneous radiative forcing of homogeneous greenhouse gases“.
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