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. 2020 Jul 13;117(30):17591–17598. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1921231117

Table 1.

Total aerosol radiative forcing decomposed into Twomey, liquid water path, and cloud fraction components using Eq. 3 from thousands of trajectories initialized over global oceanic areas from 60S to 60N averaged over eight meteorological LTS regimes

Forcing (W/m2) Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Twomey 0.34±0.28 0.42±0.31 0.61±0.41
Liquid water path 0.06±0.03 +0.09±0.05 0.04±0.06
Cloud fraction 0.25±0.08 0.08±0.03 0.08±0.03
Total 0.66±0.30 0.42±0.31 0.76±0.42