Magnitude of Green House Effect and the contribution of Carbon di oxide

Author

Selvaraj, R. Samuel ; Sivamadhavi, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. .of Phys., Presidency Coll., Chennai, India

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Global warming is due to many factors such as the variation in the incoming solar radiation, earth´s magnetic field, atmospheric conditions such as cloud formation, aerosol content, Green House Effect, etc. In the present study, the contribution of Green House Effect is being explored. First, a theoretical estimate of Green House Effect is presented with a verification using the observed values. Then, the contribution of the Green House Gases based on its concentration is calculated. Of the various Green House Gases, we have taken Carbon di oxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide, Chloro Fluoro Carbon-11 & 12 for our study. Of these gases, the contribution of carbon di oxide alone is found to be about 66% of the total magnitude of the Green House Effect.

Keywords

atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric composition; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric temperature; carbon compounds; climate mitigation; global warming; organic compounds; CO₂; Earth magnetic field; Methane; Nitrous oxide; aerosol content; atmospheric condition; chlorofluorocarbon; cloud formation; global warming; green house effect; solar radiation; Carbon dioxide; Earth; Equations; Gases; Green products; Mathematical model; Meteorology; Climate sensitivit; Green House Gases; Lapse rate; Radiation balance; Radiative forcin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technology Services and Climate Change (RSTSCC), 2010

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9184-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSTSCC.2010.5712795

Filename

5712795