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Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4401-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4401-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
Development and technical paper
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28 May 2024
Development and technical paper |  | 28 May 2024

An improved and extended parameterization of the CO2 15 µm cooling in the middle and upper atmosphere (CO2_cool_fort-1.0)

Manuel López-Puertas, Federico Fabiano, Victor Fomichev, Bernd Funke, and Daniel R. Marsh

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The radiative infrared cooling of CO2 in the middle atmosphere is crucial for computing its thermal structure. It requires one however to include non-local thermodynamic equilibrium processes which are computationally very expensive, which cannot be afforded by climate models. In this work, we present an updated, efficient, accurate and very fast (~50 µs) parameterization of that cooling able to cope with CO2 abundances from half the pre-industrial values to 10 times the current abundance.
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