Physical chemistry of climate metrics.

A. R. Ravishankara,† Y. Rudich,*,‡ and D. J. Wuebbles †Departments of Chemistry and Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 1872 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States ‡Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, 105 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States

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