Adjustments (Q277)
Subject, term, tag: Adjustments
- Adjustments (in relation to effective radiative forcing)
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Subject, term, tag: Adjustments |
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Statements
IPCC Glossary v1.5
1 reference
27 May 2026
The response to an agent perturbing the climate system that is driven directly by the agent, independently of any change in global surface temperature. For example, carbon dioxide and aerosols, by altering internal heating and cooling rates within the atmosphere, can each cause changes to cloud cover and other variables thereby producing an effective radiative forcing even in the absence of any surface warming or cooling. Adjustments are usually rapid in the sense that they begin to occur right away, before climate feedbacks which are driven by global surface warming (although some adjustments may still take significant time to proceed to completion, for example those involving vegetation or ice sheets). (English)
IPCC Glossary v1.5
1 reference
27 May 2026