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How Large is the Greenhouse Increment? The baseline model.

9 January, 2008 (14:33) | GHE

The scope of this analysis is to illustrate how one determines the magnitude of the greenhouse increment of ΔT≅33 C often cited in discussions of the Greenhouse Effect (GHE). This is the difference between the average surface of the earth and an effective radiating temperature predicted by a very simple radiation balance. [...]