Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals

MG Lawrence, S Schäfer, H Muri, V Scott… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Current mitigation efforts and existing future commitments are inadequate to accomplish the
Paris Agreement temperature goals. In light of this, research and debate are intensifying on …

Negative emissions technologies: a complementary solution for climate change mitigation

JCM Pires - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is the main greenhouse gas (GHG) and its atmospheric
concentration is currently 50% higher than pre-industrial levels. The continuous GHGs …

Assessing the potential efficacy of marine cloud brightening for cooling Earth using a simple heuristic model

R Wood - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
A simple heuristic model is described to assess the potential for increasing solar reflection
by augmenting the aerosol population below marine low clouds, which nominally leads to …

Physical science research needed to evaluate the viability and risks of marine cloud brightening

G Feingold, VP Ghate, LM Russell, P Blossey… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is the deliberate injection of aerosol particles into shallow
marine clouds to increase their reflection of solar radiation and reduce the amount of energy …

Evaluation of pulse aerosol forcing on marine stratocumulus clouds in the context of marine cloud brightening

P Prabhakaran, F Hoffmann… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
We explore the effect of aerosol perturbations on stratocumulus clouds in the context of
marine cloud brightening (MCB) using high-resolution large-eddy simulations. We use a …

[PDF][PDF] The European transdisciplinary assessment of climate engineering (EuTRACE): Removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and reflecting sunlight …

S Schäfer, M Lawrence, H Stelzer, W Born, S Low… - 2015 - pure.mpg.de
The European Transdisciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering (EuTRACE) Page 1 Final
report of the FP7 CSA project EuTRACE European Transdisciplinary Assessment of Climate …

Cloud microphysical implications for marine cloud brightening: The importance of the seeded particle size distribution

F Hoffmann, G Feingold - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) has been proposed as a viable way to counteract global
warming by artificially increasing the albedo and lifetime of clouds via deliberate seeding of …

Deconvolution of boundary layer depth and aerosol constraints on cloud water path in subtropical stratocumulus decks

A Possner, R Eastman, F Bender… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The liquid water path (LWP) adjustment due to aerosol–cloud interactions in marine
stratocumulus remains a considerable source of uncertainty for climate sensitivity estimates …

Effects of intermittent aerosol forcing on the stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition

P Prabhakaran, F Hoffmann… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
We explore the role of intermittent aerosol forcing (eg, injections associated with marine
cloud brightening) in the stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition (SCT). We simulate a 3 d …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic literature review considering the implementation of planetary geoengineering techniques for the mitigation of sea-level rise

R Minunno, N Andersson, GM Morrison - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Current mainstream mitigation measures may be insufficient to halt sea-level rise, implying
that radical measures may be required. Geoengineering—which can be described as a …