An increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide can cool the stratosphere through enhanced infrared cooling relative to non-infrared heating and through changes in the spectrum of upwelling radiation. A local emissivity-only explanation is incomplete because absorption and emission both change. The response depends on ozone solar heating, spectral opacity, altitude and adjustments of the layers below.[ref]
Why CO2 cools the middle atmosphere - a consolidating model perspective by Helge F. Goessling and Sebastian Bathiany. Abstract: window-grey model, blocking and indirect solar effects
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