Mohammad Reza Najafi, Francis W. Zwiers, Nathan P. Gillett

Nature Climate Change

Published date February 9, 2015

Attribution of Arctic temperature change to greenhouse-gas and aerosol influences

  • Quantifies the separate contributions to observed Arctic land temperature change from greenhouse gases, other anthropogenic forcing agents (which are dominated by aerosols) and natural forcing agents
  • Shows that although increases in greenhouse-gas concentrations have driven the observed warming over the past century, approximately 60% of the greenhouse-gas-induced warming has been offset by the combined response to other anthropogenic forcings, which is substantially greater than the fraction of global greenhouse-gas-induced warming that has been offset by these forcings