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Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: What do we not know after a decade of research?

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Any well‐informed future decision on whether and how to deploy solar geoengineering requires balancing the impacts (both intended and unintended) of intervening in the climate against the impacts of not doing so. Despite tremendous progress in the last decade, the current state of knowledge remains insufficient to support an assessment of this balance, even for stratospheric aerosol geoengineering (SAG), arguably the best understood (practical) geoengineering method. We articulate key unknowns associated with SAG, including both climate‐science and design questions, as an essential step toward developing a future strategic research program that could address outstanding uncertainties.

Source: Earth s Future

DOI: 10.1002/2016ef000418

Authors: Douglas G. MacMartin, Ben Kravitz, Jane C. S. Long, Philip J. Rasch

Institutions: Cornell University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Climate Change and Geoengineering

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,180