{"id":815934,"name":"Global Warming Potentials with a 100-year time horizon (GWP-100)","unit":"","createdAt":"2023-11-07T15:48:37.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-01-16T14:25:42.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2021-2021","datasetId":6291,"shortUnit":"","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"gwp_100","catalogPath":"grapher/emissions/2023-11-06/global_warming_potential_factors/global_warming_potential_factors#gwp_100","descriptionShort":"[Global warming potential](#dod:gwp) measures the relative warming impact of one unit mass of a greenhouse gas relative to carbon dioxide.","type":"float","dataChecksum":"828114022911308102","metadataChecksum":"3324008763271925801","datasetName":"Global warming potential factors","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2023-11-06","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"numDecimalPlaces":1},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"topicTagsLinks":["CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Emissions","Climate Change"]},"descriptionKey":["Global warming potential (GWP) values are used to convert greenhouse gases into a carbon dioxide equivalent metric by multiplying emissions in mass terms by their respective GWP factors.","For example, a GWP value of 25 for a certain gas means that one tonne of that ags has 25 times the warming impact of one tonne of carbon dioxide."],"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2021}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":368140,"name":"Carbon dioxide (CO₂)","code":null},{"id":368145,"name":"HFC-152a (CH₃CHF₂)","code":null},{"id":368144,"name":"Methane (CH₄)","code":null},{"id":368141,"name":"Nitrous oxide (N₂O)","code":null},{"id":368143,"name":"PFC-14 (CF₄)","code":null},{"id":372424,"name":"Sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆)","code":null}]}},"origins":[{"id":196,"title":"IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Working Group I, Chapter 7 Supplementary Material","description":"Global warming potential for a 100-year time horizon (GWP-100) for a selection of greenhouse gases.","producer":"IPCC","citationFull":"Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Chapter 7: The Earth's Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity.\n\nData extracted from the Supplementary Materials, Table 7.SM.7: Greenhouse gas lifetimes, radiative efficiencies, global warming potentials (GWPs), global temperature potentials (GTPs) and cumulative global temperature potentials (CGTPs).\n\nForster, P., T. Storelvmo, K. Armour, W. Collins, J.-L. Dufresne, D. Frame, D.J. Lunt, T. Mauritsen, M.D. Palmer, M. Watanabe, M. Wild, and H. Zhang, 2021: The Earth's Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 923-1054, [doi: 10.1017/9781009157896.009](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/climate-change-2021-the-physical-science-basis/earths-energy-budget-climate-feedbacks-and-climate-sensitivity/AE57C97E588FF3060C7C7E47DD4F3C6E).","attributionShort":"IPCC","urlMain":"https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-7/","urlDownload":"https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter07_SM.pdf","dateAccessed":"2023-11-06","datePublished":"2021-08-09","license":{"url":"https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/resources/data-access/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}