Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045112
Keywords
geo-engineering; climate change; global warming; cloud seeding; aerosol indirect effect
Funding
- CAR/NSF
- PNNL
- U Calgary
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General circulation model computations using a fully coupled ocean-atmosphere model indicate that increasing cloud reflectivity by seeding maritime boundary layer clouds with particles made from seawater may compensate for some of the effects on climate of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. The chosen seeding strategy (one of many possible scenarios) can restore global averages of temperature, precipitation and sea ice to present day values, but not simultaneously. The response varies nonlinearly with the extent of seeding, and geoengineering generates local changes to important climatic features. The global tradeoffs of restoring ice cover, and cooling the planet, must be assessed alongside the local changes to climate features.
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