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ArticleNature communications2024

High radiative forcing climate scenario relevance analyzed with a ten-million-member ensemble.

Marcus C Sarofim, Christopher J Smith, Parker Malek, Erin E McDuffie, Corinne A Hartin, Claire R Lay, Sarah McGrath

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Multimetric analysis uncovers time-dependent climate forcings from China's 2.3-fold cropland reactive nitrogen emissions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Climate change impacts on tropical cyclone-induced power outage risk: Sociodemographic differences in outage burdens.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Marcus C SarofimUS Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20460, USA. Sarofim.marcus@epa.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7753-1676
Christopher J SmithMet Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK.
Parker MalekAbt Global Inc., Tabor Center, 1200 17th Street, 10th Floor, Denver, CO, 80202, USA.
Erin E McDuffieUS Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20460, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6845-6077
Corinne A HartinUS Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20460, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1834-6539
Claire R LayAbt Global Inc., Tabor Center, 1200 17th Street, 10th Floor, Denver, CO, 80202, USA.
Sarah McGrathAbt Global Inc., Tabor Center, 1200 17th Street, 10th Floor, Denver, CO, 80202, USA.

Funding

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US Environmental Protection Agency) #68HERH19D0027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developing future climate projections begins with choosing future emissions scenarios. While scenarios are often based on storylines, here instead we produce a probabilistic multi-million-member ensemble of radiative forcing trajectories to assess the relevance of future forcing thresholds. We coupled a probabilistic database of future greenhouse gas emission scenarios with a probabilistically calibrated reduced complexity climate model. In 2100, we project median forcings of 5.1 watt per square meters (5th to 95th percentiles of 3.3 to 7.1), with roughly 0.5% probability of exceeding 8.5 watt per square meters, and a 1% probability of being lower than 2.6 watt per square meters. Although the probability of 8.5 watt per square meters scenarios is low, our results support their continued utility for calibrating damage functions, characterizing climate in the 22

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