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Term	Acronym	Vocabulary	Vocabulary Type	Definitions
global warming potential	GWP	Waste Reduction Model (WARM) Definitions and Acronyms	Glossary and Key Word List
Global Warming Potential	GWP	Ozone Layer Protection Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A number that refers to the amount of global warming caused by a substance. The GWP is the ratio of the warming caused by a substance to the warming caused by a similar mass of carbon dioxide (CO2). Thus, the GWP of CO2 is 1.0. Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-12 has a GWP of 8,500; CFC-11 has a GWP of 5,000; hydrochlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons have GWPs ranging from 93 to 12,100; and water has a GWP of 0.
Global Warming Potential	GWP	Greenhouse Gas Emissions	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: The index used to translate the level of emissions of various gases into a common measure in order to compare the relative radiative forcing of different gases without directly calculating the changes in atmospheric concentrations. GWPs are calculated as the ratio of the radiative forcing that would result from the emissions of one kilogram of a greenhouse gas to that from the emission of one kilogram of carbon dioxide over a period of time (usually 100 years). Gases involved in complex atmospheric chemical processes have not been assigned GWPs. See lifetime.
Global Warming Potential		Glossary of Climate Change Terms	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A measure of the total energy that a gas absorbs over a particular period of time (usually 100 years), compared to carbon dioxide.
Global Warming Potential	GWP	State and Local Climate and Energy Program Glossary of Terms	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: The cumulative radiative forcing effects of a gas over a specified time horizon resulting from the emission of a unit mass of gas relative to a reference gas. The GWP-weighted emissions of direct greenhouse gases in the U.S. Inventory are presented in terms of equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Global Warming Potential	GWP		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Global Warming Potential		Terms of Environment	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: The ratio of the warming caused by a substance to the warming caused by a similar mass of carbon dioxide. CFC-12, for example, has a GWP of 8,500, while water has a GWP of zero.
Global warming potential	GWP	Student's Guide to Global Climate Change	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A measure of how much heat a substance can trap in the atmosphere. GWP can be used to compare the effects of different greenhouse gases. For example, methane has a GWP of 21, which means over a period of 100 years, 1 pound of methane will trap 21 times more heat than 1 pound of carbon dioxide (which has a GWP of 1).
Global Warming Potentials	GWPs	Ozone Layer Protection Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A number that refers to the amount of global warming caused by a substance. The GWP is the ratio of the warming caused by a substance to the warming caused by a similar mass of carbon dioxide (CO2). Thus, the GWP of CO2 is 1.0. Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-12 has a GWP of 8,500; CFC-11 has a GWP of 5,000; hydrochlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons have GWPs ranging from 93 to 12,100; and water has a GWP of 0.

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