Total equivalent warming impact
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Total equivalent warming impact or TEWI is besides global warming potential
measure used to express contributions to global warming
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It is defined as sum of the direct (chemical emissions) and indirect (energy use) emissions of greenhouse gases.
Global warming potential
Global-warming potential is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere. 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. A GWP is calculated over a specific time...
measure used to express contributions to global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
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It is defined as sum of the direct (chemical emissions) and indirect (energy use) emissions of greenhouse gases.