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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
Volume 119, Issue 24, Pages 13683-13689Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022466
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
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Line-by-line radiative transfer computations show that the logarithmic dependence of radiative forcing on gas concentration not only applies to broadband irradiation fluxes such as in the well-known case of the CO2 forcing, but also applies to the spectral radiance change due to both CO2 and other gases, such as H2O. The logarithmic relationship holds for monochromatic radiance requires an explanation beyond the conventional ideas based on the spectroscopic features of the gas absorption lines. We show that the phenomenon can be explained by an Emission Layer Displacement Model, which describes the radiance response to gas perturbation under normal atmospheric conditions such as temperature linearly varying with height and gas concentration exponentially decaying with height.
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