気き候こう感かん度ど

noun

climate sensitivity

Technical term in climatology; refers to the degree of temperature change in response to a given change in radiative forcing, often expressed as the warming caused by a doubling of CO₂ concentration.

• 気き候こう感かん度どが高たかいほど、同おなじCO2増ぞう加かでも温おん暖だん化かが大おおきくなる。

  The higher the climate sensitivity, the greater the warming for the same increase in CO₂.

• IPCCの報ほう告こく書しょでは、気き候こう感かん度どの推すい定てい値ちが示しめされている。

  The IPCC report presents estimates of climate sensitivity.