Global temperature stabilization via controlled albedo enhancement of low-level maritime clouds

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1882, 2008, Pages 3969-3987

  Latham, John ^a,c   Rasch, Philip ^a   Chen, Chih Chieh ^a   Kettles, Laura ^b   Gadian, Alan ^b   Gettelman, Andrew ^a   Morrison, Hugh ^a   Bower, Keith ^c   Choularton, Tom ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud albedo; Global cooling; Negative forcing; Seeding maritime clouds

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; CLOUD ALBEDO; GLOBAL COOLING; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; NEGATIVE FORCING; SEEDING MARITIME CLOUDS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 52949100652     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0137     Document Type: Article

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