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. In spite of the 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 then 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.
MacMartin, Douglas G., et al. "Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: What do we not know after a decade of research?: GEOENGINEERING: WHAT DO WE NOT KNOW?." Earth's Future, vol. 4, no. 11, Nov. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000418
MacMartin, Douglas G., Kravitz, Ben, Long, Jane C. S., & Rasch, Philip J. (2016). Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: What do we not know after a decade of research?: GEOENGINEERING: WHAT DO WE NOT KNOW?. Earth's Future, 4(11). https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000418
MacMartin, Douglas G., Kravitz, Ben, Long, Jane C. S., et al., "Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: What do we not know after a decade of research?: GEOENGINEERING: WHAT DO WE NOT KNOW?," Earth's Future 4, no. 11 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000418
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author = {MacMartin, Douglas G. and Kravitz, Ben and Long, Jane C. S. and Rasch, Philip J.},
title = {Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: What do we not know after a decade of research?: GEOENGINEERING: WHAT DO WE NOT KNOW?},
annote = {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. In spite of the 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 then 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.},
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journal = {Earth's Future},
issn = {ISSN 2328-4277},
number = {11},
volume = {4},
place = {United States},
publisher = {American Geophysical Union (AGU)},
year = {2016},
month = {11}}
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