forcing

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Surface forcing is not the same as TOA forcing, and it is only for TOA forcing (though strictly, it is defined at the tropopause) that we get the predictive power in the global mean temperature field.

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  1. In horticulture, the art or practice of raising plants by artificial heat, at a season earlier than the natural one. Portuguese gardeners are about the very worst and moat ignorant in the civilized world, … knowing almost nothing of potting, and soils, and cuttings, and grafts, and forcing, and the management of glass. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 811.
  2. In gunnery, the act of making a bullet take the grooves of a rifle.
  3. In horticultural use forcing denotes: The rearing of plants outside of, or in advance of, their natural seasons, by means of artificial heat and under glass. The process of compelling flowers to appear from bulbs and tuberous parts (as from rhizomes of lily-of-the-valley) by subjecting them directly to an unusually high degree of heat, as when the pots or boxes are placed on hot pipes in a more or less confined space.

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  • … I believe that is the radiative forcing which is a function of the concentration - and it is derivable from line-by-line calculations over the atmospheric column. —  RealClimate
  • We have evidence that suggests such a forcing is required and no evidence contraindicating it. —  RealClimate
  • It's interesting to note that significant solar forcing would have exactly the opposite effect (it would cause a warming) - yet another reason to doubt that solar forcing is a significant factor in recent decades. —  RealClimate
  • Note that solar forcing was the single most important factor in pre-1900-1950 warming. —  RealClimate
  • The budget office had previously estimated service the debt due to the new spending could add hundreds of millions of dollars to the cost of the bill -- forcing the crowd-out. —  Libertarian Blog Place
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  1. from Middle English forsynge, verbal noun of force, v.
 

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