Disturbance of the equilibrium between the radiation which the earth (or other planet) and its atmosphere absorbs from the sun and that which it emits into space.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Science.
Definition of radiative forcing in US English:
radiative forcing
noun
Meteorology
Disturbance of the equilibrium between the radiation which the earth (or other planet) and its atmosphere absorbs from the sun and that which it emits into space.