Open AccessGlobal Warming Potential & its Importance
Author(s) -
Anik Shuvra Daw
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal for empirical education and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2616-4833
pISSN - 2616-4817
DOI - 10.35935/edr/32.2015
Subject(s) - carbon dioxide , greenhouse gas , global warming , atmosphere (unit) , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , global warming potential , greenhouse effect , chemistry , meteorology , climate change , physics , oceanography , geology , organic chemistry
Global warming potential (GWP) is a measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere up to a specific time horizon, relative to carbon dioxide. It compares the amount of heat trapped by a certain mass of the gas in question to the amount of heat trapped by a similar mass of carbon dioxide and is expressed as a factor of carbon dioxide.