How well could existing sensors detect the deployment of a solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering effort?

Technical Report · Fri Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1253481· OSTI ID:1253481

Hurd, Alan J. ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

While the stated reason for asking this question is “to understand better our ability to warn policy makers in the unlikely event of an unanticipated SRM geoengineering deployment or large-scale field experiment”, my colleagues and I felt that motives would be important context because the scale of any meaningful SRM deployment would be so large that covert deployment seems impossible. However, several motives emerged that suggest a less-than-global effort might be important.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1253481
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-23294
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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