क्लाउड रेडिएटिव फोर्सिंग (Cloud radiative forcing Meaning in Hindi)
(Definition in Hindi) The cloud radiative forcing (CRF) is a measure of the effect of clouds on the Earth’s radiation budget. It could be evaluated by computing the difference of the radiative fluxes at the top of the atmosphere with and without clouds. CRF is often separated in a longwave and a shortwave contribution. Clouds reduce the longwave losses from the Earth because their tops emit at a lower temperature than the Earth surface. On the shortwave part of the spectrum, clouds reflect a part of the incoming solar radiation because of their relatively high albedo and thus tend to cool the Earth. The sum of those two effects is negative and presently amounts to a net cloud radiative forcing of around -20 W m-2.
