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Helge F. Goessling coauthored work on the radiative response of the middle atmosphere to increased carbon dioxide. The paper develops a model perspective that distinguishes local emission and absorption from the whole-column energy budget.^[ref]

It illustrates why the effect of changing an absorber cannot be inferred from its absorption strength alone. Optical depth, temperature and the surrounding radiation field jointly determine whether a layer gains or loses energy.