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Global warming potential - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (309 words) |
 | Global warming potential (GWP) is a measure of how much a given mass of greenhouse gas is estimated to contribute to global warming. |
| It is a relative scale which compares the gas in question to that of the same mass of carbon dioxide whose GWP is one. |
| GWP is based on a number of factors, including the radiative efficiency (heat-absorbing ability) of each gas relative to that of carbon dioxide, as well as the decay rate of each gas (the amount removed from the atmosphere over a given number of years) relative to that of carbon dioxide [1]. |
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