Climate Change 2001:
Working Group I: The Scientific Basis
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Figure 12.3: Latitude-month plot of radiative forcing and model equilibrium response for surface temperature. (a) Radiative forcing (Wm-2) due to increased sulphate aerosol loading at the time of CO2 doubling. (b) Change in temperature due to the increase in aerosol loading. (c) Change in temperature due to CO2 doubling. Note that the patterns of radiative forcing and temperature response are quite different in (a) and (b), but that the patterns of large-scale temperature responses to different forcings are similar in (b) and (c). The experi-ments used to compute these fields are described by Reader and Boer (1998).

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