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All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. Cambridge University Press.

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TCR

Transient Climate Response (TCR)

TCR is defined as the average global temperature change that would occur if the atmospheric CO2 concentration were increased at 1% per year (compounded) until CO2 doubles at year 70. The TCR is measured in simulations as the average global temperature in a 20-year window centered at year 70 (i.e. years 60 to 80).

All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. Cambridge University Press.



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